How to revert a Git repository to a previous commit

Question

Hi Guys,

I have multiple commits to a Git repository. Now I want to revert back to a previous commit to see the older data. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

This depends a lot on what you mean by "revert". If you want to temporarily go back to it, then you can use the git reset command as shown below.

$ git checkout ID