It’s as simple as this: git reset HEAD^ Note: some shells treat ^ as a special character (for example some Windows shells or ZSH with globbing enabled), so you may have to quote “HEAD^” or use HEAD~1 in those cases. git reset without a –hard or –soft moves your HEAD to point to the specified … Read more
git reset does know five “modes”: soft, mixed, hard, merge and keep. I will start with the first three, since these are the modes you’ll usually encounter. After that you’ll find a nice little a bonus, so stay tuned. Let’s assume you have a repository with a history akin to this: 7e05a95 (HEAD -> main) … Read more
No difference (from git reset man page) in term of default parameter: The <tree-ish>/<commit> defaults to HEAD in all forms. That message initially did not include HEAD: commit 3c1eb9c, Jan. 2007, git 1.5.0-rc1, but since the default is not always known, the help message makes it clear to which commit you are supposed to reset. … Read more
git rm –cached <filePath> does not unstage a file, it actually stages the removal of the file(s) from the repo (assuming it was already committed before) but leaves the file in your working tree (leaving you with an untracked file). git reset — <filePath> will unstage any staged changes for the given file(s). That said, … Read more
You can run these two commands: # Revert changes to modified files. git reset –hard # Remove all untracked files and directories. # ‘-f’ is force, ‘-d’ is remove directories. git clean -fd
Because there’s no point (other commands provide that functionality already), and it reduces the potential for doing the wrong thing by accident. A “hard reset” for a path is just done with git checkout HEAD — <path> (checking out the existing version of the file). A soft reset for a path doesn’t make sense. A … Read more
With Git 2.23 (August 2019), you have the new command git restore (also presented here) git restore –source=HEAD –staged –worktree — aDirectory # or, shorter git restore -s@ -SW — aDirectory That would replace both the index and working tree with HEAD content, like an reset –hard would, but for a specific path. Original answer … Read more
git rm –cached <filePath> does not unstage a file, it actually stages the removal of the file(s) from the repo (assuming it was already committed before) but leaves the file in your working tree (leaving you with an untracked file). git reset — <filePath> will unstage any staged changes for the given file(s). That said, … Read more
This will unstage all files you might have staged with git add: git reset This will revert all local uncommitted changes (should be executed in repo root): git checkout . You can also revert uncommitted changes only to particular file or directory: git checkout [some_dir|file.txt] Yet another way to revert all uncommitted changes (longer to … Read more
I had the same problem and it was related to the .gitattributes file. However the file type that caused the problem was not specified in the .gitattributes. I was able to solve the issue by simply running git rm .gitattributes git add -A git reset –hard