[TIL] git: how to rollback in trunk based development

TIL how to rollback when working in a trunk based development model.

"A source-control branching model, where developers collaborate on code in a single branch called ‘trunk’ (main or master, in Git nomenclature), resist any pressure to create other long-lived development branches by employing documented techniques. They therefore avoid merge hell, do not break the build, and live happily ever after." - Trunk Based Development

Let's say you've deployed branch main and discovered that you need to rollback the deploy. You can either:

1. leverage PRs/short-live feature branches, by directly deploying the branch you want to rollback to

2. if you want to rollback to a specific commit hash which is not HEAD of any of the existing branches, create a new branch from this specific commit git checkout -b rollback-2022-02-13 ad3da78 and deploy that branch

I've also learned that a git commit hash is a cryptographic checksum that is calculated from the state of the repository (including the hash of all the files in the repository, the hash of the previous commit, the current date and time, etc.), and contrarily to what I previously thought, not related to individual files.