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# flox generations rollback

## NAME

flox-generations-rollback - switch to the previous live generation

## SYNOPSIS

```text theme={null}
flox [<general-options>] generations rollback
     [-d=<path> | -r=<owner/name>]
```

## DESCRIPTION

Switch to the previous live generation of the environment.

Rolling back to the previous generation restores the environment’s
manifest and lockfile to the state of the previous generation, sets it
as the live generation, and adds an entry to generation history.

The previously live generation isn’t always N-1. If you’ve previously
rolled back from generation 3 -> 2 then rolling back again will take
you from generation 2 -> 3. Similarly if you’ve switched from
generation 3 -> 1 then rolling back will take you from generation 1 ->
3\.

Generations don’t always have a linear history. If you create generation
2 by installing a package, rollback to generation 1 and create
generation 3 by installing another package, then generation 3 won’t
contain the package from generation 2.

[`flox-generations-history`](/man/flox-generations-history) can be
used to see the relationships between generations.

## OPTIONS

### Environment Options

If no environment is specified for an environment command, the
environment in the current directory or the active environment that was
last activated is used.

`-d`, `--dir`\
Path containing a .flox/ directory.

`-r`, `--reference`\
A FloxHub environment, specified in the form `<owner>/<name>`.

`-D`, `--default`\
Use your default environment (`<your-user>/default`). When
unauthenticated in an interactive context, you will be prompted to log
in. In non-interactive contexts (e.g., scripts or CI), this flag will
fail with an error when authentication is missing.

### General Options

`-h`, `--help`\
Prints help information.

The following options can be passed when running any `flox` subcommand
but must be specified *before* the subcommand.

`-v`, `--verbose`\
Increase logging verbosity. Invoke multiple times for increasing detail.

`-q`, `--quiet`\
Silence logs except for errors.

## SEE ALSO

[`flox-generations-history`](/man/flox-generations-history),
[`flox-generations-list`](/man/flox-generations-list),
[`flox-generations-switch`](/man/flox-generations-switch)