How to remove an unpushed outgoing commit in Visual Studio

Question

I accidentally pushed a staged change in a new branch in Visual Studio 2017 to my local repository  It hasn t been pushed to the remote repository  I want to get rid of it but can t find a way to do this  I rebased from local master branch to the new branch  Then I deleted the new branch  But Outgoing Commits still shows it  How to delete it or revert it

User · Answer

You have 2 options here to do that either to discard all your outgoing commits OR to undo specific commit ..

1- Discard all your outgoing commits:

To discard all your outgoing commits For example if you have local branch named master from remote branch, You can:

1- Rename your local branch from master to anything so you can remove it. 2- Remove the renamed branch. 3- create new branch from the master

So now you have a new branch without your commits ..

2- Undo specific commit: To undo specific commit you have to revert the unneeded by:

1- Double click on the unneeded commit. Double click on the unneeded commit 2- Click on revert Click on revert

But FYI the reverted commit will appear in the history of your commits with the revert commit ..

User · Answer

Try to rebase your local master branch onto your remote origin master branch and resolve any conflicts in the process

User · Answer

Open the history tab in Team Explorer from the Branches tile  right-click your branch   Then in the history right-click the commit before the one you don t want to push  choose Reset  That will move the branch back to that commit and should get rid of the extra commit you made  In order to reset before a given commit you thus have to select its parent   Depending on what you want to do with the changes choose hard  which will get rid of them locally  Or choose soft which will undo the commit but will leave your working directory with the changes in your discarded commit

User · Answer

I could not find a single good answer that helped me get rid of this issue    Let s say the name of branch  you accidentally committed changes to  is master  Following four simple steps proved like a world to me    Go to Branches Choose or create any branch other than master Delete local workspace version of master Switch to master from remotes origin

User · Answer

I fixed it in Github Desktop Application by pushing my changes

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Assuming you have pushed most recent changes to the server    Close Visual Studio and delete your local copy of the project Open Visual Studio  go to Team Explorer tab  click Manage Connections   plug  Click the dropdown arrow next to Manage Connections  Connect to a Project Select the project  confirm the local path  and click the Connect button     Once you reopen the project both commits and changes should be zero

User · Answer

TL DR  Use git reset --soft HEAD  in the cmd from the  sln folder  I was facing it today and was overwhelmed that VSCode suggests such thing  whereas it s big brother Visual Studio doesn t  Most of the answers were helpful  if I have more commits that were made before  losing them all would be frustrating  Moreover  if VSCode does it in half a second  it shouldn t be complex  Only jessehouwing s answer was the closest to a simple solution   Assuming the undesired commit s  was the last one to happen  Here is how I solved it  Go to Team Explorer - gt  Sync  There you d see the all the commits  Press the Actions dropdown and Open Command Prompt  You ll have the cmd window prompted  there write git reset --soft HEAD   If there are multiple undesired commits  add the amount after the    i e git reset --soft HEAD 5    If you re not using git  check colloquial usage   I hope it will help  and hopefully in the next version VS team will add it builtin

User · Answer

Go to the Team Explorer tab then click Branches  In the branches select your branch from remotes origin  For example  you want to reset your master branch  Right-click at the master branch in remotes origin then select Reset then click Delete changes  This will reset your local branch and removes all locally committed changes

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