I'm so frustrated that this question can't just be answered. Every other question is in relation to how to revert correctly and preserve history. This question says "I want the head of the branch to point to A, i.e. I want B, C, D, and HEAD to disappear and I want head to be synonymous with A."

git checkout <branch_name>
git reset --hard <commit Hash for A>
git push -f

I learned a lot reading Jakub's post, but some guy in the company (with access to push to our "testing" branch without Pull-Request) pushed like 5 bad commits trying to fix and fix and fix a mistake he made 5 commits ago. Not only that, but one or two Pull Requests were accepted, which were now bad. So forget it, I found the last good commit (abc1234) and just ran the basic script:

git checkout testing
git reset --hard abc1234
git push -f

I told the other 5 guys working in this repo that they better make note of their changes for the last few hours and Wipe/Re-Branch from the latest testing. End of the story.

I'm so frustrated that this question can't just be answered. Every other question is in relation to how to revert correctly and preserve history. This question says "I want the head of the branch to point to A, i.e. I want B, C, D, and HEAD to disappear and I want head to be synonymous with A."

git checkout <branch_name>
git reset --hard <commit Hash for A>
git push -f

I learned a lot reading Jakub's post, but some guy in the company (with access to push to our "testing" branch without a Pull-Request) pushed like five bad commits, trying to fix and fix and fix a mistake he made five commits ago. Not only that, but one or two pull requests were accepted, which were now bad. So forget it; I found the last good commit (abc1234) and just ran the basic script:

git checkout testing
git reset --hard abc1234
git push -f

I told the other five guys working in this repository that they better make note of their changes for the last few hours and wipe/rebranch from the latest testing. End of the story.