With Gearset, you can easily roll back any deployment made through the app in a few clicks, with full support for both full and partial rollback.
How rollback works in Gearset
Gearset's rollback works thanks to our automatic org snapshots. Whenever you run a deployment in Gearset, the snapshot of your target org is automatically saved just prior to deployment.
That means if you ever need to roll back changes, Gearset will run a comparison between the stored snapshot and the orgs now live state. This will highlight what changes have been made since the snapshot, and let you selectively rollback any of the changes. Rollbacks take advantage of Gearset's unique dependency analysis to identify and include any required dependencies for the rollback to succeed.
There's no limit to how far back you can go to perform a rollback, with the caveat that if you try to rollback a deployment from some time ago, you may see a large number of detected changes between the snapshot and the org's live state.
Rollbacks can also be performed for source control in exactly the same way.
How to roll back a deployment with Gearset
- Find the deployment you want to roll back from your deployment history, and click Roll back.
- Gearset will run a comparison between a snapshot of the environment and its current state. From here, you can choose exactly which changes to roll back.
- In this case, a layout got accidentally included in this deployment, which I now want to delete. Select the objects to deploy just like for a standard deployment.
- After selecting the objects to roll back, click Next to be taken to the pre-deployment summary. Click Deploy now or Validate deployment to complete the rollback process. In the example below, as I'm pushing changes to source control, the option to Validate is not available.
- After successfully rolling back your changes, your deployment will be stored in your deployment history, tagged as a rollback. From here, you can view the usual deployment report, download the package and even roll back the rollback if you wish!
