On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 06:28:27PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> +REVERTING COMMITTED CHANGES
> +---------------------------
> +
> +And sometimes you'll want to revert changes that you've committed, but that are
> +now buried beneath other commits.  Short of discarding and reapplying commits,
> +you have to apply a reverse patch:
> +
> +	git diff %COMMIT_ID | patch -p1 -R
> +
> +and then commit it.  Both the original application and the reversion will be
> +retained by GIT.

"git revert $commit" is a bit shorter.

Marcin