When working on a project, sometimes you might discover an issue in your current commit that didn’t exist or didn’t appear in a previous commit. Here’s how you can get your code back to that working version:
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you do this in a separate directory from the directory containing your code.
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Find the commit hash you want to rollback to (e.g. aef557567um…) and copy it. It is usually 40 characters in length.
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Clone your repository:
git clone https://nameofyourgitserver.com/username/reponame.git. -
In the cloned repo’s directory type:
git checkoutfollowed by the commit hash from Step 1 that you want to rollback the repo to.
Your code should now be rolled back to the commit that you have chosen. You can keep repeating Step 3 as much as you want in order to get your code to any older or new commit in your repo.