Revert back to specific commit in Git

Question

On my Bitbucket Repo, I see this:

I would like to get back to where I was when I made that commit with an arrow pointing to it.

In my commit where I removed AutoMapper, I removed many files and folders and I know want them all back. I want all to be same as before when I made the 44f31d5 commit.

I thought this would be common, so I tried all sorts from posts I found on SO (you can see my attempt) and this didn't work! I got that last commit by doing

git revert HEAD~1

And committing. I was thinking that would revert my last commit, instead I revert the second (if that makes sense).

Solution

Here, git revert HEAD~1 will revert to your last commit, while if you want to revert to a specific commit, then use git revert commit_id or in your case you can also use git revert HEAD~2 which will roll you back to previous two commits.

Comments

[jkmartindale]

Note that git revert commit_id does NOT revert to that commit, but instead reverts what that specific commit did.

[siefca]

No, git reset changes the pointer, revert creates new commit.