Re: git revert with partial commit.

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

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:

$ 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.

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

Best,
Zhao