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Git and GitHub: How to Revert a Single File
Apr 21, 2021
After commit your changes to the Pull Request, something could be necessary to revert a single file from your commit. Doing a new commit can lead to a messy commit history. Reverting the file is a much cleaner.
Find commit ID
git log <path to file>
Select the previous commit
git checkout <commit id> -- <path to file>
Push to server
git add .
git commit -m “revert package-lock.json”
git push
And that’s pretty much it, in this way you reverted a file keeping a clean git history.