How to Safely Revert to a Previous Commit in Git

[TO BE VERIFIED]

If you want to commit on top of the current HEAD with the exact state at a different commit, undoing all the intermediate commits, then you can use reset to create the correct state of the index to make the commit.

# Reset the index to the desired tree
$ git reset 56e05fced
# Move the branch pointer back to the previous HEAD
$ git reset --soft HEAD@{1}
$ git commit -m "Revert to 56e05fced"
# Update working copy to reflect the new commit
$ git reset --hard

• [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9529078/how-do-i-used-git-reset-hard-head-to-revert-to-a-previous-commit
• [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1895059/revert-to-a-commit-by-a-sha-hash-in-git/1895095#1895095