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git revert vs reset

Mirsho answered on September 6, 2023 Popularity 9/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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git revert vs reset

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---- GIT REVERT ----

Undoes a single commit. It does not "revert" back to the previous
state of a project by removing all subsequent commits. In Git, this is 
actually the reset command.

git revert doesn’t change the project history, which makes it a “safe” operation for 
commits that have already been published to a shared repository.

git revert is able to target an individual commit at an arbitrary point in 
the history, whereas git reset can only work backward from the current commit. 
For example, if you wanted to undo an old commit with git reset, you would 
have to remove all of the commits that occurred after the target commit, 
remove it, then re-commit all of the subsequent commits. Needless to say, 
this is not an elegant undo solution.

---- GIT RESET ----

If git revert is a “safe” way to undo changes, you can think of git reset as 
the dangerous method.

There is a real risk of losing work with git reset. 

Git reset will never delete a commit, however, commits can become 'orphaned' 
which means there is no direct path from a ref to access them. These orphaned 
commits can usually be found and restored using git reflog. Git will 
permanently delete any orphaned commits after it runs the internal garbage 
collector. By default, Git is configured to run the garbage collector every 
30 days.

Reverting is designed to safely undo a public commit, git reset is 
designed to undo local changes to the Staging Index and Working Directory.

Because of their distinct goals, the two commands are implemented differently: 
resetting completely removes a changeset, whereas reverting maintains the 
original changeset and uses a new commit to apply the undo.

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