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Wycliffe A. Onyango
Wycliffe A. Onyango

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100 Days of DevOps: Day 27

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Reverting the Latest Commit in a Git Repository

The Nautilus application development team reported issues with recent changes in the /usr/src/kodekloudrepos/media repository. The DevOps team was tasked with reverting the latest commit and restoring the repository to its previous state, while recording the change with a new commit message.

Steps Performed

  1. Navigate to the repository 
cd /usr/src/kodekloudrepos/media
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  1. Check commit history 
git log --oneline
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Output showed:

89baa1d add data.txt file
b67c5f6 initial commit
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  1. Revert the latest commit 
git revert HEAD --no-edit
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This created a revert commit but with the default message Revert "add data.txt file".

  1. Amend the commit message The requirement was to use all lowercase revert media, so the commit was amended: 
git commit --amend -m "revert media"
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  1. Verify the history 
git log --oneline
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Final output:

04ee874 revert media
89baa1d add data.txt file
b67c5f6 initial commit
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