Undoing Things

At any stage, you may want to undo something. Here, we’ll review a few basic tools for undoing changes that you’ve made. Be careful, because you can’t always undo some of these undos. This is one of the few areas in Git where you may lose some work if you do it wrong.

git reset HEAD~

undo last commit from local repository

git commit --amend

Example, git commit -m 'Initial commit' git add forgotten_file git commit --amend

add forgotten files and commit again

git checkout -- <filename>

Unmodifying a Modified File

git reset <filename

unstage the specified files