Ever need to remove something sensitive from github?

Ensure you have a latest copy of the repo with the mess up first before removing a commit way back when!

1 - Copy the commit reference you like to go back to from the log:

```
git log
```

2 - Reset git to the commit reference:

```
 git reset <commit_ref>
```
3 - Stash/store the local changes from the wrong commit to use later after pushing to remote:

```
 git stash
 ```
4 - Push the changes to remote repository, (-f or --force):
```
git push -f
```

5 - Get back the stored changes to local repository:
```
git stash apply
```

7 - In case you have untracked/new files in the changes, you need to add them to git before committing:

```
git add .
```
6 - Add whatever extra changes you need, then commit the needed files, (or use a dot '.' instead of stating each file name, to commit all files in the local repository:

```
git commit -m "<new_commit_message>" <file1> <file2> ...
```

or

```
git commit -m "<new_commit_message>" .
```