I'm using Visual Studio, not the Git Command line, to perform git operations and I accidentally did the rebase backwards (master onto branch instead of branch onto master, master is further ahead). The changes are committed but not pushed. It's now showing that I have 21 Incoming changes and 19 Outgoing changes. Is there some way in the Visual Studio IDE to undo the rebase at this point? All of the Incoming changes are in the Outgoing changes, except the changes in the branch, since I had the latest code. Do I just go through each of the Outgoing changes and revert them? Will that revert the changes for other users as well and essentially delete them?
tl;dr: (Most likely) all you have to do is delete your local copy of master
. If you wish to keep it, delete it and check it out again, or git reset --hard origin/master
.
Disclaimer: the below examples are using the command line, but you could do most of this in the Visual Studio UI as well if you prefer, such as checking out branches, and deleting them. (I'm going to assume you know how to do this.)
Details:
If you didn't have any new, personal, commits on master
, then you can just delete your local copy. Most of the time you don't even need a local copy of master
, since you can (and perhaps should) just use origin/master
instead any time you need to use it for something. In Visual Studio, simply use origin/master
instead of master
for what you normally do. For command line examples:
# Update all my copies of remote branches:
git fetch
# Create a new branch
git switch -c some-new-feature origin/master --no-track
# Update your feature branch
git switch some-new-feature
git rebase origin/master
# Or in a single command even if your branch isn't checked out:
git rebase origin/master some-new-feature
The main benefit of not having a local copy of master
is it's usually out of date, and if you forget to update it you'll be using an old copy of it.
That being said, if you really want to have a local copy, in your case, you could do a hard reset of it:
# checkout master
git switch master
# reset it to the remote version which is what you had before the rebase:
git reset --hard origin/master
# OR
git reset --hard @{u} # this is just shorthand for the remote tracking branch
# OR just delete it and check it out again
git switch --detach # in case you have master checked out right now
git branch -D master # delete your local copy
git switch master # check it out again which will be origin/master
Side Note: in the case where you actually did have personal commits on master
that you care about, then use git reflog
to find the commit ID that you were on right before the rebase, and then reset it hard to that:
git switch master
git reset --hard <commit-id-before-rebase>
From the wording of the question though I don't think this is the case.