revert remote/origin to a previus commit

moritz löser

i just tried to reset some wrong commits (struggling wit sourcetree) to a previous state. i read some question about it here so i tried (from here):

"Reset current branch to this commit"

and via

"log selected" on file -> "Reset to commit"

The problem in both cases was that this only reset local repository and as soon as i did i see a red number on pull - so i can't commit that reset til i pull, but if i pull the reset is undone. i walked this circle a couple of times (and tried some other stuff):

At the and i fooled source tree by copying my desired version and overwrote the file after pull :-P. So how to reset to a previous commit and push that reset to remote/origin? i don't want to merge i just want to discard all changes local and remote.

thx in advance

KieranA

Hi moritz,

The problem in both cases was that this only reset local repository and as soon as i did i see a red number on pull - so i can't commit that reset til i pull

So what's happened here is that, for example, you've reset three commits locally. A git fetch would get the three commits that you had previously pulled and then reset from, so the pull count would show a number '3' on it immediately because SourceTree auto-fetches commits in the background.

The second part of your statement doesn't make sense though. Even though there's commits to pull, you're still free to commit uncommitted changes before you pull, it's just you can't push these changes until you pull and merge. So pulling shouldn't be a problem provided you commit though changes.

In your case you want to do a 'Reverse Commit' which is also available from the context menu of a commit from the log view. This will yield one of two states. Either a merge conflict which you need to resolve because it's applying the changes in reverse on top of your HEAD commit, or it will cleanly apply the reversed changes and auto-commit for you and the HEAD commit will be 'Revert <msg>'.

Hope that helps