Reverting The Working Copy to an Older Commit

To revert to a commit that’s older than the most recent commit:

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114095/how-do-i-revert-a-git-repository-to-a-previous-commit

# Resets index to former commit; replace '56e05fced' with your commit code
git reset 56e05fced 

# Moves pointer back to previous HEAD
git reset --soft HEAD@{1}

git commit -m "Revert to 56e05fced"

# Updates working copy to reflect the new commit
git reset --hard