How do I revert a commit Git?

While developing software, you may run into a situation where a specific commit breaks functionality and undoing that commit will fix up the functionality.

Step 1: Find the Commit Hash

To revert a commit in Git, we need to first find the hash associated with the commit that holds the breaking functionality. To do this, run the following command:

git log

This will show something like the following:

johns-mbp /A/M/h/D/W/w/wpmerchant> git log
commit 9499b5cdec92c100af1416425c1fe16c3ec8fd9420 (HEAD -> regular, origin/regular)
Author: Ben Shadle <example@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 17 23:07:59 2018 -0700

    update style of stripe elements
commit 9455b5cdec92c100af1416425c1fe16c3ec8fd9420 (HEAD -> regular, origin/regular)
Author: Ben Shadle <example@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 17 23:07:59 2018 -0700

    update enqueueing of stripe elements

commit c37839117ed9880a85334d723ae3bf5168d9eee135d0
Author: Ben Shadle <example@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jul 16 23:24:54 2017 -0700

    update payment form styling

The payment form styling commit broke the styling of an unrelated element, so we want to revert it. So, the commit hash that we want is c37839117ed9880a85334d723ae3bf5168d9eee135d0.

Step 2: Revert a Commit Git

Run the following command to revert the ‘update payment form styling’ commit.

git revert c37839117ed9880a85334d723ae3bf5168d9eee135d0

That’s all she wrote!