git - Want to change my master to an older commit, how can I do this?

Question

I want to rollback to a previous commit, and then publish that code, then go back to the latest commit.

i.e. so my master is pointing to an older commit version just so I can pulish that version, then I want to go back to the latest commit I was one initially.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

If you want to do this and revert the master to the previous commit:

git checkout master~1            # Checkout previous commit on master
git checkout -b new_master       # Create branch for new master
git branch -D master             # Delete old master
git branch -mv new_master master # Make new_master master

Alternatively:

git reset --hard master~1        # Reset current branch to one commit ago on master