ChatGPT Plus with a short custom instruction to answer in steps, respond tersely, ask clarifying questions where needed, and make recommendations wherever possible replied to "how to reverse a pushed commit in git" with:
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To reverse a pushed commit in Git, you can either use git revert or git reset. Each approach has pros and cons.
# Option 1: git revert
Pros: Safe for shared branches, creates a new commit to undo changes.
Cons: Adds noise to history.
Commands:
git revert [COMMIT_HASH]
git push origin [BRANCH_NAME]
## Soft Reset
Pros: Keeps changes in your working directory.
Cons: Rewrites history; risky for shared branches.
Commands:
git reset --soft [COMMIT_HASH]^
git commit -m "Reverting previous commit"
git push origin [BRANCH_NAME] --force-with-lease
Pros: Completely removes commit.
Cons: Rewrites history; risky for shared branches; discards changes.
Commands:
git reset --hard [COMMIT_HASH]^
git push origin [BRANCH_NAME] --force-with-lease
Use git revert for shared branches to avoid conflicts. Use git reset for local or feature branches where you control all changes. Clarify your specific scenario for a tailored recommendation.
I am sure newer GPT versions will do better, and I think for a tool as ubiquitous as git the answers from ChatGPT would have been perfectly fine too.
Just wanted to illustrate why I wouldn't mske it a habit to ask it factual questions.
The "lost two commits" answer was meant as whimsy joke. More realstic scenarios are more boring of course.
E.g. memorizing wrong explanations for solitions that happen to work, or accepting wrong answers as fact when it's inconsequential for the short term acceptance of the answer.
> git reset --soft [COMMIT_HASH]^
The docs say files are unchanged.
> git reset --soft [COMMIT_HASH]^
Committing the unchanged files so like an amend, a squash, not exactly reversing, reverting, or undoing anything except commit messages.
As replied in the sister thread, I think that the risks of trusting GPT answers can be more subtle.
Stupid computer. That does 2 commits.
> git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now
For the love of god why? The reflog is there to save your bacon. I guess because they are still reachable from the remote's reference so they won't completely vanish just yet.
> git push -f
Now they're gone unless you can find the hashes somewhere else. The objects might still be present.
> I apologize that two of your commits are now gone
Is that you or still GPT?