'if you accidentally merged your branch with staging, will reverting it damage the history
i pushed a branch to the main, instead of staging, and then i reverted this change.
Has this left any lasting effects such as changed the history or are all negative effects removed?
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Has this left any lasting effects
Yes. A git revert of a merge commit changes the state but not the topology (history). Thus, although the main branch looks correct as to its current state, your branch's commits now cannot be merged into main ever again in future, because they are still part of main's history. That may or may not be a problem; it all depends.
(This is the problem so well discussed at https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt).
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