| name | revert-surgical |
| description | Undo a bad change without nuking unrelated work. Use when a specific commit or change broke something. |
Surgical Revert
Don't git reset --hard away three good commits to undo one bad one.
- Single commit —
git revert <sha> creates an inverse commit; history stays intact and shared-branch-safe.
- One file from a commit —
git checkout <good-sha> -- path/to/file.
- Hunk-level —
git checkout -p to revert specific changes, keep the rest.
- A merge —
git revert -m 1 <merge-sha> (pick the mainline parent).
On a shared branch, always revert (forward), never rewrite history. Reproduce the breakage first so you revert the RIGHT thing, then verify the revert actually fixes it.