How to uncommit my last commit in Git

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How can I uncommit my last commit in git   Is it  git reset --hard HEAD   or  git reset --hard HEAD

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Just a note - if you re using ZSH and see the error  zsh  no matches found  HEAD    You need to escape the    git reset --soft HEAD

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If you aren t totally sure what you mean by  uncommit  and don t know if you want to use git reset  please see  Revert to a previous Git commit    If you re trying to understand git reset better  please see  Can you explain what  git reset  does in plain English       If you know you want to use git reset  it still depends what you mean by  uncommit   If all you want to do is undo the act of committing  leaving everything else intact  use   git reset --soft HEAD    If you want to undo the act of committing and everything you d staged  but leave the work tree  your files intact    git reset HEAD    And if you actually want to completely undo it  throwing away all uncommitted changes  resetting everything to the previous commit  as the original question asked    git reset --hard HEAD      The original question also asked it s HEAD  not HEAD  HEAD refers to the current commit - generally  the tip of the currently checked-out branch  The   is a notation which can be attached to any commit specifier  and means  the commit before   So  HEAD  is the commit before the current one  just as master  is the commit before the tip of the master branch   Here s the portion of the git-rev-parse documentation describing all of the ways to specify commits    is just a basic one among many

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To keep the changes from the commit you want to undo  git reset --soft HEAD    To destroy the changes from the commit you want to undo  git reset --hard HEAD    You can also say  git reset --soft HEAD 2   to go back 2 commits   Edit  As charsi mentioned  if you are on Windows you will need to put HEAD or commit hash in quotes   git reset --soft  HEAD   git reset --soft  asdf

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Be careful  reset --hard will remove your local  uncommitted  modifications  too  git reset --hard HEAD   note  if you re on windows you ll need to quote the HEAD  so git reset --hard  quot HEAD  quot   If you want to revert the commit WITHOUT throwing away work  use the --soft flag instead of --hard

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Be careful with that   But you can use the rebase command  git rebase -i HEAD 2   A vi will open and all you have to do is delete the line with the commit  Also can read instructions that were shown in proper edition   vi  A couple of things can be performed on this mode

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If you commit to the wrong branch  While on the wrong branch    git log -2 gives you hashes of 2 last commits  let s say  prev and  last git checkout  prev checkout correct commit git checkout -b new-feature-branch creates a new branch for the feature git cherry-pick  last patches a branch with your changes   Then you can follow one of the methods suggested above to remove your commit from the first branch

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git reset --soft HEAD  Will keep the modified changes in your working tree   git reset --hard HEAD  WILL THROW AWAY THE CHANGES YOU MADE

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If you haven t pushed your changes yet use git reset --soft  Hash for one commit  to rollback to a specific commit  --soft tells git to keep the changes being rolled back  i e   mark the files as modified   --hard tells git to delete the changes being rolled back

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