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Reset

Reset allows you to change the location of the HEAD on a given branch.

This is most useful to go back to a previous commit and essentially discarding the changes that followed it.

You can reset to any previous commit by using

git reset CommitHash

where to CommitHash is the hash as seen when using log.

You can also reset to commits using a "distance", where instead of providing CommitHash, you use the current HEAD as a reference. For example, Head~1 will reset to the previous commit, Head~2 will go two commits back, etc.

Options

--hard

Also reset the working directory to the new reference point