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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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37 Resetting Staged Changes and Commits

The git reset command lets you change the HEAD—the latest commit your working tree points to—of your repository. It modifies either the staging area or the staging area and working tree.

Git’s ability to craft commits exactly like you want means that you sometimes need to undo changes to the changes you staged with git add. You can do that by calling git reset HEAD <file to change>. This is the most common use of the reset and is like Subversion’s svn revert command. Remember not to get the two confused. (For more on git revert, see Task 36, Reverting Commits.)

You have two options to get rid of changes completely. git checkout HEAD <file(s) or path(s)> is a quick way to undo changes to your ...

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