How to perform uncommit operation in git?

Question

to perform uncommit operation on my code. I did:

git reset --hard demo1.txt

but it is showing :

fatal: Cannot do hard reset with paths.

I also tried this one:

git reset --soft demo1.txt

but showing the same result:

fatal: Cannot do soft reset with paths.

I am a bit new to git. so couldn't able to figure it out. what's wrong ?

Please help me resolve it.

Is your branch name `demo1.txt`? – Justinas Oct 05 '21 at 11:44 — Justinas, Oct 05 '21 at 11:44
@Justinas no this is my fileName . – Harsh Bhardwaj Oct 05 '21 at 11:45 — Harsh Bhardwaj, Oct 05 '21 at 11:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '21 at 11:44

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You are trying to uncommit a file, which won't work. If you want to uncommit your last commit (as seen at the top of git log --stat), do a

git reset HEAD~1

It will leave your changes uncommitted. If you don't care about those changes, you can instead remove them with

git reset --hard HEAD~1

answered Oct 05 '21 at 11:44

neu242

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If you want to change only one file: perform `git reset HEAD~1` as here and then do a `git checkout demo1.txt` to checkout the uncomitted changes and then a new commit of all the other changed files will finish it off. – SamBob Oct 05 '21 at 11:50

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