How to invert 2 commits in Git

You are currently on a development branch called b1 and you have created 3 commits.

Your commit graph looks like this:

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Now, you realize that you want to change the order of the last 2 commits, so that add A3.txt comes before add A2.txt.

To achieve this, you can use the command git rebase -i <commit-hash>, where <commit-hash> is the hash of the commit before the first commit you want to switch.

In this case, the commit 1a49c9d is the last commit before the commit(s) you want to modify, so you would run:

This command opens an editor with a list of the commits that will be rebased:

The order of the commits listed determines the order in which they will be applied. To switch the order of the commits, you simply need to invert the order of the lines:

After making the necessary changes, the two commits will be rewritten in the desired order:

As a result, the new commit graph will look like this:

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The commit 1a49c9d remains the same, but the following two commits have been rewritten.

If the original commits had already been pushed to the remote repository, you would need to perform a git push --force to rewrite the history…