How to add a file to the last commit in git

Question

Sometimes after I did a commit  I found out that I left out a file which should also be included in the commit but actually not  What I often did was commit again   git add the left out file git commit  include the file which should be added in the last commit    I think it might not be a good idea to do so  what I want to do is just include the file without adding a commit  Something like this   git add the left out file git add staged files to previous commit   Is it possible

User · Accepted Answer

Yes  there s a command git commit --amend which is used to  fix  last commit   In your case it would be called as   git add the left out file git commit --amend --no-edit   The --no-edit flag allow to make amendment to commit without changing commit message   EDIT  Warning You should never amend public commits  that you already pushed to public repository  because what amend does is actually removing from history last commit and creating new commit with combined changes from that commit and new added when amending

User · Answer

If you didn t push the update in remote then the simple solution is remove last local commit using following command  git reset HEAD   Then add all files and commit again

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