Introducing the Revert Button
We’ve all merged bad pull requests and wanted to roll back the changes without having to rely on Git commands. Starting today, you can easily revert a pull request on…
We’ve all merged bad pull requests and wanted to roll back the changes without having to rely on Git commands. Starting today, you can easily revert a pull request on GitHub by clicking Revert:

You’ll be prompted to create a new pull request with the reverted changes:

More details about reverting pull requests are available in Help.
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