Removing file changes that have been staged for a commit in Git
Questions tagged [unstage]
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What is the `git restore` command and what is the difference between `git restore` and `git reset`?
When I want to unstage a staged file, all of my Git tutorials show something like:
$ git add *
$ git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
(use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage)
renamed: README.md -> README
modified: …
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What is the fastest way to unstage parts of a new file in git?
When I want to split up a new file into several commits I can git add -N and then interactively stage lines using git gui. When I make a mistake while staging, however, git gui won't let me unstage individual lines because it is a new file…
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git reset vs git reset HEAD
Every time a file has been staged, Git offers helpful instructions in the event you needed to unstage a file:
(use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage)
However the decent Git Tutorials by Atlassian simply say:
git reset
This seems more…
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How do I revert a pushed commit back to being unstaged?
I tried searching for an answer to this, but haven't found anything that matches quite like this problem. Feel free to link me to an answer if there is one already out there.
What I did was commit and push a large number of changes as one commit. …
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Git unstage without losing merge?
I have a branch with hundreds of new and different files and I just want to merge a dozen or so of these into my release branch. I tried running a normal git merge with no commit and that automatically staged hundreds of files I don't want (in…
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git tries to upload deleted file that is not staged
I had a file F that exceeded 100 MB limit that I tried to push. So the push failed. I then removed the file, because it could not be pushed and assumed I needed to do add . ; commit and push again. In the auto generated commit it said deleted file…
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How to get changes done by me one commit back?
I had lots of changes in my local git fork, I do:
git add -A
git commit -m "commit message"
pull changes from upstream master
rebase
git push to my origin
Now It happens that there are several other commits (from others) between my previous commit…
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How to undo a "git add" keeping the previously staged version? (Does the index have history?)
I have a question that's similar to How to undo 'git add' before commit?, but with an important difference:
background:
I'm running some code that's generating files which I'll add to my repository when complete. The code that's generating the…
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After a git reset --soft HEAD^ was performed, how do I remove files not needed by my repo?
I had to run
git reset --soft HEAD^
to undo a commit with large files (same issue).
Now I can see my files again in VS Code Source Control Explorer(see below)
Problem - I want to remove these files from being added to my repo when committing and…
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git hook to batch unstage all files in a path
I have a devlog folder where I write down my thoughts/example codes which I like to be visible with git status. With the exclusion of these files, quite often I can just git add .; git commit, but obviously the contents in devlog prohibit that. I…
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Remove unstaged, uncommitted files in git when checking out a different branch
I deleted both the local and remote branches for a particular branch
git branch -d branchName
git branch --delete --remotes origin/branchName
When I checkout out a different branch, I am still seeing the untracked/uncommitted files when I run git…
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How to merge two similar project files together?
I've installed Ubuntu a month ago and have moved successfully from Windows. I installed the another operating system in dual-boot mode to switch between Windows & Ubuntu on startup everyday. Anyway, I installed VSC on ubuntu and pulled my project…
Amirmahdi
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unable to unstage multiple files and directories from git bash and computer's command prompt
so my first attempt into web development, one best forgotten methinks in that -when creating my first html file- I was meant to load the saved file using sublime 3 and git gui. I'm unsure how but ended up loading thousands of files - seemingly…
rod
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Remove unstaged files from merge
i have two branches, one more updated than other one and I want to merge into the outdated one the updated but only the commits that don't cause conflicts.
When I do the merge and try to checkout the unstaged files it says 'warning: path "my file"…
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Visual Studio 2017 Unstaged changes vanishes after Merging from Master Branch to a release branch
I need to Merge selected changes from the 'Master' branch to a 'EnvT' branch.
During the Merge(Master to EnvT) lets say about 15 changes have been made to the 'Master' branch, all of the 15 changes is Staged and available within the 'Staged…
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