Some better IDEs keep track of your files as a local history. If you removed files externally (say, git reset) you should be able to click in your IDE on parent directory and choose “Compare with local history”. I used this feature successfully in PHPStorm IDE when my untracked files got wiped out by some … Read more
git reset does know five “modes”: soft, mixed, hard, merge and keep. I will start with the first three, since these are the modes you’ll usually encounter. After that you’ll find a nice little a bonus, so stay tuned. Let’s assume you have a repository with a history akin to this: 7e05a95 (HEAD -> main) … Read more
It’s as simple as this: git reset HEAD^ Note: some shells treat ^ as a special character (for example some Windows shells or ZSH with globbing enabled), so you may have to quote “HEAD^” or use HEAD~1 in those cases. git reset without a –hard or –soft moves your HEAD to point to the specified … Read more
Because there’s no point (other commands provide that functionality already), and it reduces the potential for doing the wrong thing by accident. A “hard reset” for a path is just done with git checkout HEAD — <path> (checking out the existing version of the file). A soft reset for a path doesn’t make sense. A … Read more
With Git 2.23 (August 2019), you have the new command git restore (also presented here) git restore –source=HEAD –staged –worktree — aDirectory # or, shorter git restore -s@ -SW — aDirectory That would replace both the index and working tree with HEAD content, like an reset –hard would, but for a specific path. Original answer … Read more
No difference (from git reset man page) in term of default parameter: The <tree-ish>/<commit> defaults to HEAD in all forms. That message initially did not include HEAD: commit 3c1eb9c, Jan. 2007, git 1.5.0-rc1, but since the default is not always known, the help message makes it clear to which commit you are supposed to reset. … Read more
git rm –cached <filePath> does not unstage a file, it actually stages the removal of the file(s) from the repo (assuming it was already committed before) but leaves the file in your working tree (leaving you with an untracked file). git reset — <filePath> will unstage any staged changes for the given file(s). That said, … Read more
This will unstage all files you might have staged with git add: git reset This will revert all local uncommitted changes (should be executed in repo root): git checkout . You can also revert uncommitted changes only to particular file or directory: git checkout [some_dir|file.txt] Yet another way to revert all uncommitted changes (longer to … Read more
I have presented git restore (which is still marked as “experimental”) in “How to reset all files from working directory but not from staging area?”, with the recent Git 2.23 (August 2019). It helps separate git checkout into two commands: one for files (git restore), which can cover git reset cases. one for branches (git … Read more
Careful: git reset –hard WILL DELETE YOUR WORKING DIRECTORY CHANGES. Be sure to stash any local changes you want to keep before running this command. Assuming you are sitting on that commit, then this command will wack it… git reset –hard HEAD~1 The HEAD~1 means the commit before head. Or, you could look at the … Read more