Unstage an added file in Git

Henning Koch

September 07, 2010Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you added a file by mistake, you can unstage it (but keep local changes) by saying

git reset HEAD path/to/file

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This is also what git status will tell you.

NB: It works for conflicts, too, if git checkout -- <file> does not (although git tells you it would).

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2010-09-07 19:47)