Revert to a commit by a SHA hash in Git?

Question

I'm not clear on how git revert works. For example, I want to revert to a commit six commits behind the head, reverting all the changes in the intermediary commits in between.

Say its SHA hash is 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d. Then why can't I just do something like:

git revert 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d

Answer 1

The best way to rollback to a specific commit is:

$ git reset --hard <commit-id>

Then:

$ git push <reponame> -f