I am working on a project using Git as the VCS. I got a branch xyz cut from the mainline branch of master. After working for a while, I committed my code and took a pull of the branch mainline.
The pull was fine. I then merged the code with master. After the merge, there were problems in certain files. I have not committed the code after merging. Can someone please guide as to how I can abort this merge and bring my branch where I am working currently to the state where it was before I merged it?
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as long as you did not commit you can type
git merge --abortjust as the command line suggested.
3If you do "git status" while having a merge conflict, the first thing git shows you is how to abort the merge.
Truth be told there are many, many resources explaining how to do this already out on the web:
Git: how to reverse-merge a commit?
Git: how to reverse-merge a commit?
Undoing Merges, from Git's blog (retrieved from archive.org's Wayback Machine)
So I guess I'll just summarize some of these:
git revert <merge commit hash>
This creates an extra "revert" commit saying you undid a mergegit reset --hard <commit hash *before* the merge>
This reset history to before you did the merge. If you have commits after the merge you will need tocherry-pickthem on to afterwards.
But honestly this guide here is better than anything I can explain, with diagrams! :)
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