Why is git revert telling me "bad revision" when I use a commit hash?
Solution 1
When you use the short version of a SHA1, you use the prefix, not the suffix. So you actually want to say:
git revert 063ac580
Solution 2
You are trying to revert that doesn't exist. The SHA that starts with 9e7d365f is not in your repository.
Solution 3
Use the beginning of the hash as identification, as in:
git revert 063ac580e2
Ellen Spertus
I am a computer science professor at Mills College. I used to work at Google on projects such as App Inventor (which I still contribute to), Blockly, and the Hour of Code. I have done research in computer architecture, compilers, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and data mining.
Updated on February 07, 2020Comments
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Ellen Spertus about 4 years
I am trying to revert to an earlier git commit but get the error "bad revision". Why?
Here is a transcript (with author names removed):
Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github (master) $ git status # On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github (master) $ git log | head commit e3eb30cc7ca6d4cd10de755b63821cad75da1e83 Date: Wed Feb 5 17:54:32 2014 -0800 I changed my greeting. commit 063ac580e28bab524286dac7b0a8f88d9e7d365f Date: Mon Feb 3 07:53:19 2014 -0800 Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github (master) $ git revert 9e7d365f fatal: bad revision '9e7d365f'
Why am I getting "bad revision", and what should I do? I am using
git bash
on Windows 7 with my origin on github.