Entry

Remove Last Commit and Discard Changes

Difficulty: entry

Source: devops-interviews/devops-interview-questions by Alex Muradov

Answer

Scenario

You have created a commit locally that contains incorrect changes and you want to completely erase it from history.

Task

Navigate to /home/interview/repo. Remove the last commit entirely and discard all associated file changes.

Example

# Before (Bad commit exists)
$ git log --oneline -2
c3d4e5f (HEAD -> main) Bad commit - wrong changes
b2c3d4e Add feature implementation

# After (Clean history)
$ git log --oneline -2
b2c3d4e (HEAD -> main) Add feature implementation

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