Unstage a file in Git (FREE ALL)
When you stage a file in Git, you instruct Git to track changes to the file in preparation for a commit. To instruct Git to disregard changes to a file, and not include it in your next commit, unstage the file.
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To remove files from stage use
reset HEAD
, where HEAD is the last commit of the current branch. This unstages the file but maintains the modifications.git reset HEAD <file>
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To revert the file back to the state it was in before the changes:
git checkout -- <file>
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To remove a file from disk and repository, use
git rm
. To remove a directory, use the-r
flag:git rm '*.txt' git rm -r <dirname>
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To keep a file on disk but remove it from the repository (such as a file you want to add to
.gitignore
), use therm
command with the--cache
flag:git rm <filename> --cache