title: “211121-2123 Undoing git add / unstaging files” tags:

• “zc”
• “zc/it”
• “git” fulldate: 2021-11-21T21:11:47+0100 date: 2021-11-21 layout: post hidden: false draft: false

Two different questions here! Both options are: ¹ If you add a file for the first time, git rm --cached . or git -rm -r --cached . will reverse that.

If you want to un-add changes to a file that’s already in the repo, git reset <file> / git reset will undo that.