How can I revert a range of commits in git? From looking at the gitrevisions documentation, I cannot see how to specify the range I need. For example:
A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> HEAD
I want to do the equivalent of:
git revert B-D
where the result would be:
A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F -> HEAD
where F contains the reverse of B-D inclusive.
What version of Git are you using?
Reverting multiple commits in only supported in Git1.7.2+: see "Rollback to an old commit using revert multiple times." for more details.
The current git revert man page is only for the current Git version (1.7.4+).
As the OP Alex Spurling reports in the comments:
Upgrading to 1.7.4 works fine.
To answer my own question, this is the syntax I was looking for:
git revert B^..D
B^ means "the first parent commit of B": that allows to include B in the revert.
See "git rev-parse SPECIFYING REVISIONS section" which include the <rev>^, e.g. HEAD^ syntax: see more at "What does the caret (^) character mean?")
Note that each reverted commit is committed separately.
Henrik N clarifies in the comments:
git revert OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
As shown below, you can revert without committing right away:
git revert -n OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
git commit -m "revert OLDER_COMMIT to NEWER_COMMIT"