just a lil guide for my future self when i inevitably forget this again (and it’s probably still wrong oops-)

- Steps:

- Find the commit you want to revert to & copy its hash:

- Return to your open project:

for me, i was working with a locally-cloned copy in VScode, connected to the remote repo’s main branch, and was up to date with all of the changes made.

- Create new remote branch:

open the terminal and run git checkout -b <new-remote-branch> <old-commit-hash>. This will create a new remote branch populated with the project at the time of the commit hash you specified, and switch you to it.

E.g., git checkout -b names-update 4853ecf5765b7174465e604e8fd8bdd5430ea84f.

- Push this new remote branch:

then, simply push this new remote branch with git push origin <new-remote-branch>, and check that it appears on github!

Now you can operate off this new branch, containing the project in a previous commit’s state.

yes… i know this is a very simple thing to do that i only just kinda grasped >.<