git reset remote head

Question

My colleague has pushed some commits to our working branch by mistake and now I want to rollback to a previous commit both locally and remotely.

I use reset --hard to the selected commit, the HEAD in my local branch moves to the selected commit and then I use

git push -f origin working_branch:working_branch

to push the HEAD but I get denying non-fast-forward error.

How should I rollback to the selected commit both locally and remotely?

Thanks in advance!

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '16 at 09:12

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you can revert that commit with git revert command - https://git-scm.com/docs/git-revert. git revert creates another commit that reverts changes. Also pushing with --force is not safe as you may override tree that someone already fetched.

answered Jul 05 '16 at 09:12

krp

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Thank you for your answer. This is what I finally did. – Dimitra Jul 05 '16 at 09:40
no problem, btw it it helped - you can accept the answer :) – krp Jul 05 '16 at 12:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '16 at 10:28

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You can use git reset --hard HEAD~1 to remove the latest commit and then do

git push origin master --force

to push to the server

answered Jul 05 '16 at 10:28

Mohan Kumar P

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This is what I tried first but git denied to push to the remote server. I got denying non-fast-forward error. – Dimitra Jul 05 '16 at 13:35

git reset remote head

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