DESCRIPTION
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In the first and second form, copy entries from <commit> to the index.
-In the third form, set the current branch to <commit>, optionally
+In the third form, set the current branch head to <commit>, optionally
modifying index and worktree to match. The <commit> defaults to HEAD
in all forms.
linkgit:git-add[1]).
'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]::
- This form points the current branch to <commit> and then
+ This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and then
updates index and working tree according to <mode>, which must
be one of the following:
+
--
--soft::
- Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all, but
- requires them to be in a good order. This leaves all your changed
- files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status' would
- put it.
+ Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all (but
+ resets the head to <commit>, just like all modes do). This leaves
+ all your changed files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status'
+ would put it.
--mixed::
Resets the index but not the working tree (i.e., the changed files
EXAMPLES
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+Undo add::
++
+------------
+$ edit <1>
+$ git add frotz.c filfre.c
+$ mailx <2>
+$ git reset <3>
+$ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol <4>
+------------
++
+<1> You are happily working on something, and find the changes
+in these files are in good order. You do not want to see them
+when you run "git diff", because you plan to work on other files
+and changes with these files are distracting.
+<2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sounds worthy of merging.
+<3> However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does
+not match the HEAD commit). But you know the pull you are going
+to make does not affect frotz.c nor filfre.c, so you revert the
+index changes for these two files. Your changes in working tree
+remain there.
+<4> Then you can pull and merge, leaving frotz.c and filfre.c
+changes still in the working tree.
+
Undo a commit and redo::
+
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+
See also the --amend option to linkgit:git-commit[1].
-Undo commits permanently::
-+
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-$ git commit ...
-$ git reset --hard HEAD~3 <1>
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-+
-<1> The last three commits (HEAD, HEAD^, and HEAD~2) were bad
-and you do not want to ever see them again. Do *not* do this if
-you have already given these commits to somebody else. (See the
-"RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1] for
-the implications of doing so.)
-
Undo a commit, making it a topic branch::
+
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<2> Rewind the master branch to get rid of those three commits.
<3> Switch to "topic/wip" branch and keep working.
-Undo add::
+Undo commits permanently::
+
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-$ edit <1>
-$ git add frotz.c filfre.c
-$ mailx <2>
-$ git reset <3>
-$ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol <4>
+$ git commit ...
+$ git reset --hard HEAD~3 <1>
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+
-<1> You are happily working on something, and find the changes
-in these files are in good order. You do not want to see them
-when you run "git diff", because you plan to work on other files
-and changes with these files are distracting.
-<2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sounds worthy of merging.
-<3> However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does
-not match the HEAD commit). But you know the pull you are going
-to make does not affect frotz.c nor filfre.c, so you revert the
-index changes for these two files. Your changes in working tree
-remain there.
-<4> Then you can pull and merge, leaving frotz.c and filfre.c
-changes still in the working tree.
+<1> The last three commits (HEAD, HEAD^, and HEAD~2) were bad
+and you do not want to ever see them again. Do *not* do this if
+you have already given these commits to somebody else. (See the
+"RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1] for
+the implications of doing so.)
Undo a merge or pull::
+
Suppose you are working on something and you commit it, and then you
continue working a bit more, but now you think that what you have in
your working tree should be in another branch that has nothing to do
-with what you commited previously. You can start a new branch and
+with what you committed previously. You can start a new branch and
reset it while keeping the changes in your work tree.
+
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file. For example, the first line of the first table means that if a
file is in state A in the working tree, in state B in the index, in
state C in HEAD and in state D in the target, then "git reset --soft
-target" will put the file in state A in the working tree, in state B
-in the index and in state D in HEAD.
+target" will leave the file in the working tree in state A and in the
+index in state B. It resets (i.e. moves) the HEAD (i.e. the tip of
+the current branch, if you are on one) to "target" (which has the file
+in state D).
working index HEAD target working index HEAD
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