COMP1531
⚽️ Teamwork
9.3 - Git - Resets & Amending
Author: Hayden Smith 2021
In this lecture
Why?
- Sometimes we make mistakes using git, and we need tools to be able to resolve them (carefully)
What?
- Doing a hard reset to a point in time
- Altering the git history
- Amending a commit
Mistakes
- Everything we've done until this point continues to build on the git history. But we've largely considered the git history immutable.
- With git, sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes we want to undo things, or change history.
Two ways we're going to discuss this are:
- git resets
- git commit amend
git reset
- Atlassian has a very clear article about git reset. We will use this as guidance.
- We will mainly discuss hard and soft resets through a demonstration
git reset --hard [hash]
Sets all of your code to a specific commit. This is used for saying "I want to go back in time, and I don't care about anything that's happened since that point I'm going back to"
git reset --soft [hash]
Keeps all of your current code the same, but just changes what commit you're pointing to. This is used for saying "I like the code I have, so let's not change anything, but I want to alter the history of commits that got me here"
git commit --amend
git commit --amend -m "Commit"
- Sometimes we need to update our previous commit name. We can do that easily by making another commit that over-rides it.
- The --amend flag will make the commit, but it will replace the most recent commit with the new commit instead of adding another commit to the history
- Let's do a demonstration.
Feedback
COMP1531 21T3 - 9.3 - Git - Resets, Amend
By haydensmith
COMP1531 21T3 - 9.3 - Git - Resets, Amend
- 1,076