Remove all files for git commit?

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Undo “git add”?

I made the mistake of running:

git add .

Which added important things such as .bashrc. Even though I run:

git rm .

When I run:

git push project master

Everything still is added. I've even reinstalled git, but I am still pestered by this. A solution I found was to start over and remove all the files from the commit. Are there any other things I could do to remove all the files from the commit?

By the way, the "hard" way to solve it wouldn't have been re-installing git but deleting (`rm -rf`) your repository folder and cloning it again (assuming it's a clone of a remote repo). — ThiefMaster, Nov 16 '10 at 02:18

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '10 at 02:15

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You can use git reset to unstage changes, or even git reset --hard HEAD~ to blow away the most recent commit (careful with that one, it will not even keep your changes around.)

See http://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset

answered Nov 16 '10 at 02:15

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It doesn't work. How I know that is I ran git log --pretty=format: --name-status | cut -f2- | sort -u and it still displayed all of the files. – Mohit Deshpande Nov 16 '10 at 02:22
If your changes get pushed you've already committed them. – ThiefMaster Nov 16 '10 at 02:26

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 02:16

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Use git reset.

answered Nov 16 '10 at 02:16

ThiefMaster

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Remove all files for git commit?

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