How to pull a specific commit from GitHub?

Question

I realize there are similar answers, such as the one found here , but these expect that you know the structure of GitHub commits and branches, and I don't.

So my question is if I want to pull a commit 12fds123nfd1123sefs12 from branch master on GitHub, what is the git fetch command?

For clarity, I mean I want to pull all commits up to a given commit.

Answer 1

You have at least two ways to achieve that: the first one is to remove all the commits that are after the desired commit. Interactive rebase will help you:

$ git rebase 12fds123nfd1123sefs12 -i

You will see a text editor, you have to remove everything in it, then save it and forcely update the remote branch:

$ git push origin master -f

The second way is to create a branch based on the desired commit and then release this branch:

$ git checkout -b fixedmaster 12fds123nfd1123sefs12

Now you have the fixedmaster branch that doesn't have any bad commits. You can release it.