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+git-revert(1)
+=============
+
+NAME
+----
+git-revert - Revert some existing commits
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m <parent-number>] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
+'git revert' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+
+Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the
+related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record
+them. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications
+from the HEAD commit).
+
+Note: 'git revert' is used to record some new commits to reverse the
+effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one). If you want to
+throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
+should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the `--hard` option. If
+you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
+should see linkgit:git-restore[1], specifically the `--source`
+option. Take care with these alternatives as
+both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
+
+See "Reset, restore and revert" in linkgit:git[1] for the differences
+between the three commands.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+<commit>...::
+ Commits to revert.
+ For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
+ linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
+ Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
+ default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its `--no-walk`
+ option.
+
+-e::
+--edit::
+ With this option, 'git revert' will let you edit the commit
+ message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
+ you run the command from a terminal.
+
+-m parent-number::
+--mainline parent-number::
+ Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
+ side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
+ option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
+ the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
+ relative to the specified parent.
++
+Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
+brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
+changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
+reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
++
+See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
+more details.
+
+--no-edit::
+ With this option, 'git revert' will not start the commit
+ message editor.
+
+--cleanup=<mode>::
+ This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before
+ being passed on to the commit machinery. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more
+ details. In particular, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`,
+ scissors will be appended to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on in the case
+ of a conflict.
+
+-n::
+--no-commit::
+ Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
+ commit log messages stating which commits were
+ reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary
+ to revert the named commits to your working tree
+ and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition,
+ when this option is used, your index does not have to match
+ the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
+ beginning state of your index.
++
+This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
+effect to your index in a row.
+
+-S[<keyid>]::
+--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
+--no-gpg-sign::
+ GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
+ defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
+ stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to
+ countermand both `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable, and
+ earlier `--gpg-sign`.
+
+-s::
+--signoff::
+ Add a `Signed-off-by` trailer at the end of the commit message.
+ See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
+
+--strategy=<strategy>::
+ Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
+ See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
+ for details.
+
+-X<option>::
+--strategy-option=<option>::
+ Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
+ merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
+
+include::rerere-options.txt[]
+
+--reference::
+ Instead of starting the body of the log message with "This
+ reverts <full object name of the commit being reverted>.",
+ refer to the commit using "--pretty=reference" format
+ (cf. linkgit:git-log[1]). The `revert.reference`
+ configuration variable can be used to enable this option by
+ default.
+
+
+SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
+---------------------
+include::sequencer.txt[]
+
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+`git revert HEAD~3`::
+
+ Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
+ and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
+
+`git revert -n master~5..master~2`::
+
+ Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
+ in master (included) to the third last commit in master
+ (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted
+ changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
+ index.
+
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[]
+
+include::config/revert.txt[]
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1]
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite