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From: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git revert with partial commit.
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:48:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87355ddn6y.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POLVpjxO91s1dX98TLepXMrybSWq9y8qJ6b7w+e0SRJT1A@mail.gmail.com>


Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> Because the commit I want to revert is done a long time ago, which is
> not the parent of the commit I'm currently on, so I can't use the `~1`
> which indicates that I want to go back one commit from my current
> position.

You *can* use HEAD~1.  After the git revert, a new commit has been
created, and so HEAD~1 refers to the state of things before running git
revert.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-06 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-02  9:17 git revert with partial commit Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-02 14:16 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2023-04-03 17:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-04  0:28   ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-03 18:29 ` Phillip Susi
2023-04-04  0:20   ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-04  0:37     ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-04 15:50       ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-04-04 16:19         ` Chris Torek
2023-04-04 17:21           ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-04 18:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-04 19:40               ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-04 19:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-04 21:14                 ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-05  6:39                   ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-07  0:24                     ` Felipe Contreras
2023-04-07 17:20                       ` Sergey Organov
2023-04-06 15:48     ` Phillip Susi [this message]

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