away, you can always return to the pre-merge state with
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-$ git reset --hard HEAD
+$ git merge --abort
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Or, if you've already committed the merge that you want to throw away,
state with
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-$ git reset --hard HEAD
+$ git restore --staged --worktree :/
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If you make a commit that you later wish you hadn't, there are two
In the process of undoing a previous bad change, you may find it
useful to check out an older version of a particular file using
-linkgit:git-checkout[1]. We've used `git checkout` before to switch
-branches, but it has quite different behavior if it is given a path
-name: the command
+linkgit:git-restore[1]. The command
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-$ git checkout HEAD^ path/to/file
+$ git restore --source=HEAD^ path/to/file
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replaces path/to/file by the contents it had in the commit HEAD^, and
The Workflow
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-High-level operations such as linkgit:git-commit[1],
-linkgit:git-checkout[1] and linkgit:git-reset[1] work by moving data
+High-level operations such as linkgit:git-commit[1] and
+linkgit:git-restore[1] work by moving data
between the working tree, the index, and the object database. Git
provides low-level operations which perform each of these steps
individually.