git - Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit

Question

I am newbie in git and I am working on git.

I added some files in git :

git add <file1>
git add <file2>

then I wanted to push that for review, but mistakenly I did

git commit

so the files which I have changed don't go for reviews.
Now if I enter the command :

git status

it says

# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
#
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

I want to revert that commit and I want to push those files for review rather than commit. Can anyone let me know how I can do that?

Answer 1

You cannot push anything that hasn't been committed yet. The order of operations is:

1. Make your change.
2. git add - this stages your changes for committing
3. git commit - this commits your staged changes locally
4. git push - this pushes your committed changes to a remote

If you push without committing, nothing gets pushed. If you commit without adding, nothing gets committed. If you add without committing, nothing at all happens, git merely remembers that the changes you added should be considered for the following commit.

The message you're seeing (your branch is ahead by 1 commit) means that your local repository has one commit that hasn't been pushed yet.

In other words: add and commit are local operations, push, pull and fetch are operations that interact with a remote.

Since there seems to be an official source control workflow in place where you work, you should ask internally how this should be handled.