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How do I undo or abort a merge in GIT?

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I am learning, and experimenting. I was experimenting with "git merge", forgot the "--no-commit", and discovered the hard way that aborting the editor that comes up without saving does NOT abort the merge.

And git merge --abort fails, because the merge succeeded.

Git Gui has a way to amend the comment of the last merge, but no way to undo it. I figure this should be simple, but I don't know how.

posted Feb 23, 2015 by Satish Mishra

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One way to do that :
- look up the hash of the commit you want to go back to, let's say it's 'abc1234'
- run git reset --hard abc1234.

answer Feb 23, 2015 by Arjuna
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