In general, you can go back to a commit in your history with git reset.
This is not possible with GitHub Desktop. GitHub Desktop is more of a tool to synchronize your repositories and not a full featured GUI client.
But that doesn't mean you have to use the command line, since there are alternatives. You can find a list here. To mention a few (that support git reset):
- TortoiseGit (Windows)
- SourceTree (Mac, Windows)
Here is how you do it on command line. Most clients provide this in their UI using the same vocabulary (usually, you are able to select a commit and reset to it via context menu).
You will go back to the previous commit with
git reset HEAD^
or some more commits (for example 3) by
git reset HEAD^3
or to a specific commit by
git reset f7823ab
Have in mind that, by default, the option --mixed is passed to git reset. So, all changes made, since that commit you reset to, will still be there.
To get the original state of the commit that you want to 'revert', you have to pass --hard. For example:
git reset f7823ab --hard
In general, you can go back to a commit in your history with git reset.
This is not possible with GitHub Desktop. GitHub Desktop is more of a tool to synchronize your repositories and not a full featured GUI client.
But that doesn't mean you have to use the command line, since there are alternatives. You can find a list here. To mention a few (that support git reset):
- TortoiseGit (Windows)
- SourceTree (Mac, Windows)
Here is how you do it on command line. Most clients provide this in their UI using the same vocabulary (usually, you are able to select a commit and reset to it via context menu).
You will go back to the previous commit with
git reset HEAD^
or some more commits (for example 3) by
git reset HEAD^3
or to a specific commit by
git reset f7823ab
Have in mind that, by default, the option --mixed is passed to git reset. So, all changes made, since that commit you reset to, will still be there.
To get the original state of the commit that you want to 'revert', you have to pass --hard. For example:
git reset f7823ab --hard
If you have a commit that you have not pushed, it is easy to undo the commit. The "undo" button appears when you have such a commit. It removes the commit from the branch's history and places the files back into the Changes area.
how to go back to a state at a commit?
Revert commit on Website
Unity + GitHub Desktop: Tried to Revert to an Earlier Commit and Now Project Is Blank
Revert a commit using the online version of Github?
I have GitHub Desktop and I have been making regular commits. Now a bug was introduced and I want to go back and get the whole project as it was in time at a previous commit.
How to do that is not entirely intuitive. How do you go back to a previous state of the entire project at the point of a single commit?
There are no local changes according to Github Desktop....
no changesThe commit that I want to go back to is the 3rd commit down on the left. I figure that (according to their instructions) I would revert the two latest commits and I'd be back where I want to be.
a simple plan
But Github protets and claims there are changes.....
only there aren't any changes
But, there aren't any changes.
WTF Github?
I'm not worried about the code......
I'm just irritated that a versioning system so widely used would be so poorly designed.