I just did a commit and realized I need to undo the commit without deleting any changes....how would I do that? I have tried git reset --soft and that did nothing, no errors nothing, when I enter that command, literally nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
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git reset --soft implies HEAD, but you want to go back to the commit before HEAD, thus :
git reset --soft HEAD^
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Try this:
git reset --soft HEAD~1
The advantage of this way is you can reset softly for n latest commits, just let the command know expected number of commits to reset softly.
For example, to reset softly last two commits:
git reset --soft HEAD~2
You might also want to learn about various modes of reset.
answered Jan 27, 2020 at 18:46
Shridhar R Kulkarni
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user979331
by doing that they are now unstaged changes....what would happen if i unstaged them?
Shridhar R Kulkarni
they are already unstaged you are saying so why unstage again?
Romain Valeri
Just re-stage them with
git add ., but if you didn't want to unstage them, you could have used --mixed (implied) instead of --soft, so git reset HEAD^