Git: how do I undo my last commit?
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I committed the wrong files. I haven't pushed yet. How do I undo it without losing my changes? And what if I *had* pushed?
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Not pushed yet: move the branch back one commit and keep your changes staged:
git reset --soft HEAD~1- --soft keeps the changes staged. - --mixed (the default) keeps them, unstaged. - --hard throws them away. Be careful.
If you only need to fix the commit (add a forgotten file, change the message):
git add forgotten.js
git commit --amendAlready pushed to a shared branch: don't rewrite history others may have pulled. Create a new commit that reverses it:
git revert <commit-sha>
git pushSafety net: git reflog lists every position HEAD has been at, so even after a --hard reset you can usually recover with git reset --hard <sha-from-reflog>.
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If you just want to unstage files you added by mistake (not undo a commit): git restore --staged <file>. And git restore <file> discards uncommitted changes to a file. Careful, that one is not recoverable.
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