How would you roll back a production release using Git?

There are several safe rollback methods:

Option 1 — Revert to a previous tag (recommended):

git revert <commit-hash>

git push origin main

This creates a new commit that undoes the bad release.

Option 2 — Deploy a stable tag:

git checkout v1.2.3

git push origin main --force

Example:

If version v2.0 introduced a bug in the payment flow, I revert to v1.9.1 (the last stable tag)

nd redeploy while investigating the issue.

In CI/CD pipelines:

We often have a ROLLBACK_TAG variable that can deploy a known safe version

utomatically.