UNDOING IN GIT - RESET, CHECKOUT AND REVERT

If you make a commit that you later wish you hadn't, there are two fundamentally different ways to fix the problem:
1. You can create a new commit that undoes whatever was done by the old commit. This is the correct thing if your mistake has already been made public.
2. You can go back and modify the old commit. You should never do this if you have already made the history public; git does not normally expect the "history" of a project to change, and cannot correctly perform repeated merges from a branch that has had its history changed.

Fixing a mistake with a new commit
Creating a new commit that reverts an earlier change is very easy; just pass the git revert command a reference to the bad commit; for example, to revert the most recent commit:
$ git revert HEAD
This will create a new commit which undoes the change in HEAD. You will be given a chance to edit the commit message for the new commit. You can also revert an earlier change, for example, the next-to-last:
$ git revert HEAD^
In this case git will attempt to undo the old change while leaving intact any changes made since then. If more recent changes overlap with the changes to be reverted, then you will be asked to fix conflicts manually, just as in the case of resolving a merge.


Fixing a mistake by modifying a commit
If you have just committed something but realize you need to fix up that commit, recent versions of git commit support an --amend flag which instructs git to replace the HEAD commit with a new one, based on the current contents of the index.
$ git ci --amend
This gives you an opportunity to add files that you forgot to add or correct typos in a commit message, prior to pushing the change out for the world to see. If you find a mistake in an older commit, but still one that you have not yet published to the world, you use git rebase in interactive mode, with "git rebase -i" marking the change that requires correction with edit. This will allow you to amend the commit during the rebasing process.