理解使用本地仓库的“git checkout”

Question

Let's assume I have a repo with file A.txt In remote repo with some commit-id this file contains string "Hello, World!" , but I want to clone it to my local machine and change this string to "Goodbye, World!"

After git clone and git commit -m "Hello to Goodbye" I suddenly understand that this is not what I really want to do and trying to return my "Hello, World!"

After doing git checkout -b stable_version <commit-id> I've got message about 'detached HEAD' state but there are no visible changes for A.txt file.

So my question is what exactly should I do for rolling back to "Hello, World!" ?

Answer 1

try using git reset

basically, enter the command git reset <Your Commit Id> , and it reverts back to the state before the commit was pushed