Re: git revert with partial commit.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:20 AM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 2:36 AM Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi here,
> > >
> > > I want to revert a previous commit partially, as follows:
> > >
> > > werner@X10DAi:~$ git log |grep -A3 -B5 -m1 texstudio
> > > commit f18fbd1e16a1ca4215621768d17858c036086608
> > > Author: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> > > Date:   Sun Aug 1 20:01:02 2021 +0800
> > >
> > >     deleted:    Public/CTAN/IDE/phonon/compile-install-phonon
> > >     deleted:    Public/CTAN/IDE/texstudio-org/texstudio.git.sh
> > >     modified:   Public/repo/github.com/Dushistov/sdcv.git.sh
> > >     deleted:    Public/repo/github.com/goldendict/stardict-relative/bigdict
> > >
> > > More specifically, I just want to revert the following ones:
> > >
> > >     deleted:    Public/CTAN/IDE/phonon/compile-install-phonon
> > >     deleted:    Public/CTAN/IDE/texstudio-org/texstudio.git.sh
> > >
> > > Is this possible?
> >
> > If you are comfortable with git-gui and gitk, then I would say just
> > revert it, then click ammend the previous commit in git-gui, and click
> > to unstage the changes you DON'T want to revert, then commit.  If you
> > want to do it from the command line, then git-revert, then git checkout
> > HEAD~1 -- ( the other 4 file names here ) will get back the other 4
> > files then you can git commit --amend.  Alternatively you can skip
> > git-revert and instead git checkout f18fbd1e16~1 -- (the two files that
> > you DO want to revert), then git commit.
>
> Thanks for your tips. I've also figured out the similar solution based
> on the comment here [1], as shown below:
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> $ git show f18fbd1e16a1ca4215621768d17858c036086608 --
> Public/CTAN/IDE/phonon/compile-install-phonon
> Public/CTAN/IDE/texstudio-org/texstudio.git.sh | git apply --reverse
> --3way
>
> 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.

Sorry for my inappropriate description above. In fact, it's a more
concise method which also will do the trick, aka, as follows:

$ git checkout f18fbd1e16~1 --
Public/CTAN/IDE/phonon/compile-install-phonon
Public/CTAN/IDE/texstudio-org/texstudio.git.sh

> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5669358/can-i-do-a-partial-revert-in-git
>
> Best,
> Zhao