Re: how to undo a git merge?

ff [off-list ref] writes:

I have two git branches that stem from the same exact master branch.
Many commits happened independently on these two branches overtime.
Then, I inadvertently did a merge from one branch into another. The branch
where I merged into now has mixed commits, and also a commit for the merge
itself. I then had more commits added to the branch that I merged into.

Now I would like to revert the merge... what is the best way of doing that?
I would like very much to use something like git-revert <merge_commit_id>
But that does not seem to work.

If you have published history, then the only sane option is
"git revert -m".  If you haven't published history, you can
try "git rebase --interactive".

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git