git hard reset - what am I doing wrong?

Question

I have Problem: I wanted to commit something but instead commited the whole location where the folder which was meant to be commited were in. So now I have like way too many Files and folders in my Github and I really just want to get back to where I was before. That's why I tried hard reset, which I found online. So first I did "git log" and copied the hash of the HEAD I wanted to restore. Then I told my console "git reset --hard HASH" Of course I filled in my Hash where now stands HASH. After doing this whats o ever the files in git dont change online. I thought I might have to pull first and push then. I also tried to just commit and push. Still, no matter what I do, the files online won't change. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you've described your flow correctly, you did these things in this order:

• Worked from a remote branch
• Committed work that you didn't intend to commit
• Pushed that work to your remote
• Wish to revert to before you pushed

In that case, you would perform this.

WARNING: This is a good way to lose work. If you're working with others, be sure you have their blessing. If you're sure you want to do this, carry on.

git reset --hard HEAD^

This takes you back to the parent of where your HEAD reference is pointing.

You then would push the result of that to your remote branch.

git push

Answer 2

It sounds like you are trying to remove the remote branch and it's history.

I found instructions here: http://help.github.com/articles/removing-files-from-a-repository-s-history/

$ git rm --cached giant_file #Stage our giant file for removal, but leave it on disk $ git commit --amend -CHEAD #Amend the previous commit with your change #Simply making a new commit won't work, as you need #to remove the file from the unpushed history as well $ git push # Push our rewritten, smaller commit