Undo multiple file and folder 'git add'

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hopper picture hopper · Aug 25, 2013 · Viewed 14.5k times · Source

I executed 

git add .

and now I want to revert that git add. How can I accomplish that?

Answer

dahlbyk picture dahlbyk · Aug 25, 2013

git reset (which is equivalent to git reset HEAD) will un-add (more commonly "unstage") all files.

In Git, revert is used for undoing an existing commit (typically a commit that happened a while ago, or has been shared with others). If your commit has not yet been shared with others, there are ways to "rewrite" recent history such that you can pretend the changes you want to revert never happened in the first place.

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