How to revert multiple commits as part of a single commit

Question

This is not a major problem, just something I want to know whether or not is possible.

Let's say we have two commits, abcd123 and wxyz789 , that occur at non-adjacent, separate places, far back in a repo's history. Now let's say we want to revert them. Doing

git revert abcd123 wxyz789

would result in two separate commits, one reverting abcd123 and the other reverting wxyz789 .

This is all fine and well, but what if the mistakes we want to fix in the two commits are logically linked, and for the purposes of self-documentation we'd like to make one single commit containing one single " I broke something so now I'm reverting files x, y and z " comment? Is there a git command that does this?

(I am of course aware that it is possible to create a commit where I just manually fix all the changes and then push. This is painful for all the obbious reasons.)

Answer 1

You can do:

git revert abcd123
git revert --no-commit wxyz789
git commit --amend

... and then write an appropriate commit message describing the combined effect of reverting both commits.

Answer 2

In case of complicated reverts, which changes each other, the revert --no-commit might be problematic.

My simple solution was to do real revert, and the squash:

git revert <all commits>
git rebase -i

And then mark all the reverts as squash , except the first one, to create a single commit.

Answer 3

git revert -n <commits>
git commit

The first command will do all the reverts without create any commits and stage the final result (the -n option). After that, the commit command creates a single commit.