Git: how to unstage file changes (new commits)

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mohamed@mohamed:~/Projects/skyrocket$ git status 
On branch dev/SMMWEB-36
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

    modified:   config/puppet/modules/apt (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/augeas (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/concat (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/elasticsearch (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/file_concat (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/git (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/php (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/postgresql (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/redis (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/stdlib (new commits)
    modified:   config/puppet/modules/vcsrepo (new commits)

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    .idea/copyright/
    config/puppet/modules/blackfire/
    config/puppet/modules/inifile/
    dump.rdb
    keys.dev.pub
    keys.tags.pub

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

I do not know what (new commits) does mean? I do not want to commit these files. I tried to do

$ git checkout -- .

What if i put config/puppet/* to gitignore file then updated the cache as following

$ git rm --cached -r .

will this delete these files from repo. after pushing or merging with other branches?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 11:42

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git reset is the command to unstage file from git.

After unstaging the file, you can confirm it by git status command as well.

answered Mar 18 '16 at 11:42

Santhosh J

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '19 at 16:35

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If the directories under config/puppet/modules/ are submodules, try

$ git submodule update

which worked for me. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/14422494/5794048

answered Jan 30 '19 at 16:35

Murphy

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 18 '19 at 15:31

If you want to save the modification for later use, just stash them with

git add . && git stash save "info for the modification".

If you want to drop the modification, just do

git add . && git reset --hard HEAD

Attach: to show what you have stashed with git stash list, to apply the stash with git stash pop

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 11:38

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Use git reset to unstage files !

answered Mar 18 '16 at 11:38

Hyukchan Kwon

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How does this differ from existing answers mentioning `reset`? – mustaccio Mar 19 '21 at 19:31

Orsox · Answer 5 · 2016-03-18T11:50:44.477

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With "git reset" you can undo all adds or with git reset file_name you can undo picked add

edited Mar 18 '16 at 11:50

answered Mar 18 '16 at 11:39

Orsox

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Jlearner · Answer 6 · 2019-10-17T06:50:24.180

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We can run command git reset --hard

edited Oct 17 '19 at 06:50

answered Sep 18 '19 at 10:36

Jlearner

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There should be no space between `--` and `hard`, as in [`--hard`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset#Documentation/git-reset.txt---hard). Otherwise it gets treated as [`git reset -- `](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset#Documentation/git-reset.txt-emgitresetem-qlttree-ishgt--ltpathsgt82308203). – Gino Mempin Sep 18 '19 at 23:30

Git: how to unstage file changes (new commits)

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