How to remove files from git staging area

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I made changes to some of my files in my local repo  and then I did git add -A which I think added too many files to the staging area  How can I delete all the files from the staging area   After I do that  I ll just manually do git add  filename

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If you ve already committed a bunch of unwanted files  you can unstage them and tell git to mark them as deleted  without actually deleting them  with      git rm --cached -r     --cached tells it to remove the paths from staging and the index without removing the files themselves and -r operates on directories recursively  You can then git add any files that you want to keep tracking

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Use the following to remove a specific file from the staging area  git restore --staged  lt individual file gt   Or use the following to remove all the files that are currently staged  git restore --staged    In your git bash terminal after adding files to the staging area you can run a git status and the command is displayed for you above the current staged files

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Now at v2 24 0 suggests  git restore --staged     to unstage files

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It is very simple   To check the current status of any file in the current dir  whether it is staged or not  git status  Staging any files  git add   for all files in the current directory git add  lt filename gt  for specific file  Unstaging the file  git restore --staged  lt filename gt

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Use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage fils  ex   to unstage all files   git reset HEAD     to unstage one file   git reset HEAD nameFile txt

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use   git reset HEAD   This will remove all files from staging area

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You can reset the staging area in a few ways    Reset HEAD and add all necessary files to check-in again as below    git reset HEAD --- gt  removes all files from the staging area  git add  lt files  that are required to be committed gt   git commit -m   lt commit message gt    git push

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If unwanted files were added to the staging area but not yet committed  then a simple reset will do the job     git reset HEAD file   Or everything   git reset HEAD     To only remove unstaged changes in the current working directory  use   git checkout --

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Use  git reset   to unstage all the staged files

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I tried all these method but none worked for me  I removed  git file using rm -rf  git form the local repository and then again did git init and git add and routine commands  It worked

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As noted in other answers  you should use git reset  This will undo the action of the git add -A   Note  git reset is equivalent to git reset --mixed which does this     Resets the index but not the working tree  i e   the changed files are preserved but not marked for commit  and reports what has not been updated  This is the default action    git reset

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To remove all files from staging area use - git reset To remove specific file use - git reset  File path

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You could use  git reset HEAD   then add the specific files you want with  git add  directory  filename

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You can unstage files from the index using  git reset HEAD -- path to file   Just like git add  you can unstage files recursively by directory and so forth  so to unstage everything at once  run this from the root directory of your repository   git reset HEAD --     Also  for future reference  the output of git status will tell you the commands you need to run to move files from one state to another

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