Proper way to clean git history on master

Question

I am on branch "master". I had such git history:

333  (#82)
444  (#83)

Then I done some commits and reverts (222->111->010->789->456->123):

123 Revert "(#84)"
456 Revert "(#81)"
789 Revert “(#81)"
010 Revert "(#86)"
111  (#86)
222  (#84)
333  (#82)
444  (#83)

I need somehow to clear those wrong steps (222->111->010->789->456->123) to return history back to :

333  (#82)
444  (#83)

will it be ok if i do:

git rebase -i 333

and will drop wrong commits? then

git push -f

Possible duplicate of [How to revert Git repository to a previous commit?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114095/how-to-revert-git-repository-to-a-previous-commit) — Martin Nyolt, Sep 21 '16 at 12:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '16 at 12:01

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Assuming you haven't pushed the commits and reverts, do the following:

git reflog

This will give you a list of ops (incl. all reverts and commits) in reverse chronological order. Find the last stable commit and find its head in the form of HEAD@{somenumber}. Then to fall back to that commit, do the following:

git reset --hard HEAD@{somenumber}

answered Sep 21 '16 at 12:01

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I think he already knows the hash, which is `333`, so the command would be `git reset --hard 333` – Francesco Sep 21 '16 at 12:03

Proper way to clean git history on master

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