git: Removing the last commit

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Removing the last commit

To remove the last commit from git, you can simply run git reset --hard HEAD^ If you are removing multiple commits from the top, you can run git reset --hard HEAD~2 to remove the last two commits. You can increase the number to remove even more commits.

If you want to "uncommit" the commits, but keep the changes around for reworking, remove the "--hard": git reset HEAD^ which will evict the commits from the branch and from the index, but leave the working tree around.

If you want to save the commits on a new branch name, then run git branch newbranchname before doing the git reset.

a commit "deleted" in this way still shows up in git reflog. How do I COMPLETELY remove a commit?

old commits that are not part of any branch anymore will get garbage collected, typically in 30 days or so. There's a good chance the commit is not there anymore @nmz787-intel. If you look up how the garbage collection is done, perhaps you can find a way to really hard-delete it.
I'd recommend against it though, and just let 'nature'/gc take its course https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904860/how-to-remove-unreferenced-blobs-from-my-git-repository

thank you

Use these 2 following commands:

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Thank you +1
tHANKS

Formally, you would want to do enclose the argument in quotes, meaning "HEAD^" rather than HEAD^.

Why? Because some shells will interpret the ^ as a line continuation character. Not saying which one, but it begins with a 'W'. He-he.

thank, best wishes

Formally, you would want to do enclose the argument in quotes, meaning "HEAD^" rather than HEAD^.

Why? Because some shells will interpret the ^ as a line continuation character. Not saying which one, but it begins with a 'W'. He-he.

git reset --hard "HEAD^"
git push origin -f

👍 Thanks, @lbruun

To force to remove the last commit from git, use these 2 following commands:

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

that was perfect for me. thanks...

I wanted to uncommit my last commit. so i used
git reset --hard HEAD~1
git push origin -f
but last commit changes did not seen in my vscode

so i tried
git reset HEAD^
now also not getting what to do?

To force to remove the last commit from git, use these 2 following commands:

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Confirming that it still works in March 2023!

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Works Like magic !!!

To force to remove the last commit from git, use these 2 following commands:

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Life Saver
Still working in May 2023

where do i put this code? in my terminal? I need to remove like my last 10 commits smh

where do i put this code? in my terminal? I need to remove like my last 10 commits smh

yes, those commands are provided to be used with git cli, so u just run them in ur terminal

where do i put this code? in my terminal? I need to remove like my last 10 commits smh

yes, those commands are provided to be used with git cli, so u just run them in ur terminal

thank you my friend

I am still seeing last two commits after used command: git reset --hard HEAD^

This works for me: git reset HEAD~

This works for me Thanks.

Formally, you would want to do enclose the argument in quotes, meaning "HEAD^" rather than HEAD^.

Why? Because some shells will interpret the ^ as a line continuation character. Not saying which one, but it begins with a 'W'. He-he.

Thanks a ton!

what does -f mean in:
git push origin -f ??????????????????????

@Newbclharri git push origin -f means the same as --force , it means it will push, even when the history doesn't match, or even when you have DELETED commits. Do not run this command unless you understand what it does, and even then, always prefer --force-with-lease, that way if two people were to run the same command at the same time, it would prevent the second person being able to accidentally overwriting and thus removing your commits from the branch.

To force to remove the last commit from git,
use these 2 following commands:

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Worked like a charm 👍😍

Gj, thx :)

git reset --hard HEAD~ works for me but I used git reset HEAD~ removing flag --hard to keep the changes.

git reset --hard HEAD~1
git push origin -f

works for me, tnx a lot

git reset --hard HEAD~ works for me but I used git reset HEAD~ removing flag --hard to keep the changes.

It works for me. Thanks 👍

I spent the past hour freaking out, I cried, I feel like less of a man, but figured out how to fix it, pending git has not collected the garbage yet.

git fsck --lost-found

dangling commit b72e67a9bb3f1fc1b64528bcce031af4f0d6fcbf

Recover the dangling commit with rebase:

$ git rebase b72e67a9bb3f1fc1b64528bcce031af4f0d6fcbf

damn thanks

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Works Great.

Ha ha, if you are reading this thread, you must have fucked up your repo.

Ha ha, if you are reading this thread, you must have fucked up your repo.

false, i did it on Mar 29, 2022

Remove last commit from GitHub

First way

git reset --hard HEAD~1
git push --force

Another way

git reset --hard "HEAD^"
git push origin -f

Both ways works fine.

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Return removed commit to GitHub

Step 1. Find full SHA of deleted commit

git fsck --lost-found

Example output:
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
Checking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
dangling commit 5601624a8926d4426ad42768bd0637fd82b70b80
dangling commit d5ee3e10a2c8b17b4e3cd7ee0562d6cdafacc5fa
dangling commit 1b0b23f462cb4c560c3adfa821bcddd4e53e6a43
dangling blob b99c193caeccb77af13df8adb0358cee0b93eb82

Step 2. Recover the dangling commit with rebase

git rebase 5601624a8926d4426ad42768bd0637fd82b70b80
git push

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Deleted in this way commit still in git reflog. But garbage collector should remove typically in 30 days or so.

This was created thanks to you as a summary of the topic.
Thank you all.

Use these 2 following commands:

git reset --hard HEAD^
git push origin -f

Thank you +1
tHANKS

that's what I was looking for thank you so much

I wanted to uncommit my last commit. so i used git reset --hard HEAD~1 git push origin -f but last commit changes did not seen in my vscode

so i tried git reset HEAD^ now also not getting what to do?

if you want to undo your last commit but keeping your changes to make a modify or re-commit them, instead of 'hard' use 'soft', this command works for me:

git reset --soft HEAD~

PD: it's quite important to type the '~' simbol