Problem

Let’s suppose you have a repository with the following commit history:

9649a8b (HEAD -> main) third commit
d28d4b8 second commit
2c28acd first commit

You want to remove only the second commit (d28d4b8), leaving only the first and the third ones untouched

Solution

Simply run a interactive rebase, passing as argument the hash of the commit to be removed (with a ^):

git rebase -i f318ad8^

The ^ character will extend the rebase range to include the offending commit

Now that the interactive rebase is listing both the second and the third commits, simply erase the line containing the commit to be removed, save and quit, example below:

pick d28d4b8 second commit # erase this line
pick 9649a8b third commit

Special thanks

• To Muireinik for his answer on StackOverflow