Example

  • Revert a file to it’s 4 generation ancestor in its commit history and push the revert upstream.
  • Though we don’t use git revert here, it works the same by creating a new commit based on the original commit we are reverting to:
  • Revert a single file to a previous version
# get the commit id
git log -4 <filename>

# checkout the commit id
git checkout <commit-id> <filename>

# commit it anew
git commit

# push change to remote
git push