How to undo the last commit in git

git git-commit git-reset git-revert

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Solution 1

I think you haven't messed up yet. Try:

git reset HEAD^

This will bring the dir to state before you've made the commit, HEAD^ means the parent of the current commit (the one you don't want anymore), while keeping changes from it (unstaged).

Solution 2

Try simply to reset last commit using --soft flag

git reset --soft HEAD~1

Note :

For Windows, wrap the HEAD parts in quotes like git reset --soft "HEAD~1"

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chintan s

Updated on July 08, 2022

Comments

chintan s almost 2 years

By mistake, I did git add . and git commit in the develop branch. But luckily, I did not do git push.

So I wanted to revert it back to original state.

I tried git reset --soft and git reset HEAD --hard but looks like I have messed it up.

How do I fix this? I want to go back to original state and possibly keep the code changes.
geneorama almost 7 years

This might be a duplicate, but this is the over simplistic answer that I want 90% of the time. Thank you
Amal Gupta almost 7 years

You, sir/ma'am, are a savior!
nfriend21 over 6 years

After you do this, if you want to completely remove the unstaged changes, you'll need to run the following: git reset --hard HEAD
Green over 6 years

Don't know why this answer marked as correct. I get error thrown fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, Doesn't work
Green over 6 years

fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD~1': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
Jose over 6 years

@Green same for me. I used this command instead to completely remove last commit: git reset --hard HEAD~1 Found here
Boop over 6 years

if fatal: ambiguous argument simply use git reset -- HEAD^
bart over 6 years

On windows, the caret is a special character for CMD (it's used to escape a character, similar to the backslash in Linux) so you better quote "HEAD^".
Fred over 6 years

Try using git bash. If you're using Windows the console won't work for some reason, not sure why. Git bash does tho.
user56reinstatemonica8 over 6 years

@Green Windows doesn't like HEAD~1, wrap it in quotes like git reset --soft "HEAD~1"
alexwc_ almost 6 years

95% of the time this works 100%... too bad I didn't find it a month ago! Simple, which is what I need.
Darina Sergeivna over 3 years

Question - and if i have done add . commit and the pull , i believe that this might effect on other files too and not only on mine?