How to revert project back to a previous commit in android studio

Android Studio Instructions: if you want to do this in Android Studio, press alt + 9 (or Command + 9 on Mac) to open the Version Control panel. Switch to the Log tab and right click on a previous commit. Select Checkout Revision.


Command line instructions: Open the command line tool you are using. Go to the Android app's Git directory (using cd). Execute git log and find the previous commit you want to revert to.

commit 7c247be6d8975dc88f6cc2631c154786a1f3b79e
Author: John Doe <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jun 11 22:37:35 2015 -0400

    Some helpful commit message should be here.

If that is the commit you want to revert to, then execute git checkout 7c247b.


Open the Version Control Panel using alt + 9 and click on Log. This should show a list of commits. Right click on the commit you want to revert to and select Reset Current Branch to Here. This should bring up a list of options to keep or discard changes when reverting. Select Hard to discard any current changes and click Reset.