I mistakenly added files using the command “git add dir”. I have not yet run “git commit”. Is there a way to remove this dir and everything contained within it from the commit? I have tried git reset dir, but it didn’t work. Apparently git reset file is the way to undo it. But I … Read more
UPDATE²: With Git 2.23 (August 2019), there’s a new command git restore that does this, see the accepted answer. UPDATE: This will work more intuitively as of Git 1.8.3, see my own answer. Imagine the following use case: I want to get rid of all changes in a specific subdirectory of my Git working tree, … Read more
This question already has answers here: How do I undo the most recent local commits in Git? (98 answers) Closed 5 years ago. By mistake, I did git add . and git commit in the develop branch. But luckily, I did not do git push. So I wanted to revert it back to original state. … Read more
In Git, I was trying to do a squash commit by merging in another branch and then resetting HEAD to the previous place via: git reset origin/master But I need to step out of this. How can I move HEAD back to the previous location? I have the SHA-1 fragment (23b6772) of the commit that … Read more
I reset my local master to a commit by this command: git reset –hard e3f1e37 when I enter $ git status command, terminal says: # On branch master # Your branch is behind ‘origin/master’ by 7 commits, and can be fast-forwarded. # (use “git pull” to update your local branch) # nothing to commit, working … Read more
I’d been working on something, and decided it was completely screwed…after having committed some of it. So I tried the following sequence: git reset –hard git rebase origin git fetch git pull git checkout At which point I got the message Your branch is ahead of ‘origin/master’ by 2 commits. I want to discard my … Read more
I did a git pull and got an error: The following working tree files would be overwritten by merge… Please move or remove them before you can merge. To resolve this I did the following: git fetch git reset –hard origin/master Now when I do git pull, it says everything up to date. I want … Read more
After git reset –hard, git status gives me files within the Changes not staged for commit: section. I’ve also tried git reset ., git checkout — . and git checkout-index -f -a, to no avail. So, how can I get rid of those unstaged changes? This seems to hit only Visual Studio project files. Weird. … Read more
How can I undo every change made to my directory after the last commit, including deleting added files, resetting modified files, and adding back deleted files? 3 Answers 3
I have following working tree state $ git status foo/bar.txt # On branch master # Unmerged paths: # (use “git reset HEAD <file>…” to unstage) # (use “git add/rm <file>…” as appropriate to mark resolution) # # deleted by us: foo/bar.txt # no changes added to commit (use “git add” and/or “git commit -a”) File … Read more
