Reverting remote branch through PR to a specific commit

Question

Basically I have a remote master branch that I do not have direct push access to. I've identified a commit say x commits ago that I want to revert the remote branch to. Is there a simple way to do this without having to revert all the previous commits before x?

I've attempted:

git checkout -b A_DEV_BRANCH
git reset --hard COMMIT_SHA_X
git add .
git push origin A_DEV_BRANCH

But that reports 0 changes through the pull request, and doesn't appear to remove the commits since X, feel like I might be missing something simple here?

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this was to track down the specific commit (y) that results in x being present in the remote branch then revert it using git revert y and committing the result back to master.

To do what I wanted to do is possible using git reset but would involve re-writing history and potentially causing problems for people who based their work off of in between commits to the remote.