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I am getting difficulty at the (git reset --hard HEAD^) when I press enter it is showing like (More?) What to do? how can I delete that (love babbar and love eswar string is added) to get the HEAD to (new ) branch-->Index file is added. any help?

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I tried to delete the 1 commit in the new branch, but it is not deleting and it is showing the both branches

mkrieger1
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Eswar sai Bendi
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  • I think your shell environment treats `^` as some special symbol and asks you for the continuation of the command on the next line. Moreover, `^` is usually used to select parent commits of the _merge_ commit. Try any of these: `git reset --hard [commit hash]` or `git reset --hard HEAD~1` – Stanislav Bashkyrtsev Jul 24 '23 at 12:43
  • yeah, now it worked. by adding git reset --hard HEAD~1 – Eswar sai Bendi Jul 24 '23 at 12:46
  • even `~` by itself would work because it is just like `~1`. Being able to know how to escape `^` will come handy because `~` and `^` are not the same (they are _the same_ **only** when dealing _the first direct parent_). – eftshift0 Jul 24 '23 at 13:07

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The ^ symbol (also called caret or circumflex) is an escape character in Batch script.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20342902/1549818

Therefore the ^ needs to be escaped.
This can be done by using the escape character ^, i.e. ^^.

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