Unstage changes

June 13, 2018 · View on GitHub

Assumptions

Instructions

Depending on which changes you want to unstage, do one of the following.

Unstage all changes. (Literally type HEAD here. HEAD means the currently checked out commit.)
```
git reset HEAD
```
Unstage all changes in a directory. (Replace PATH/TO/DIRECTORY with a relative or absolute path to the directory containing the changes you want to unstage; One Windows use backslashes '\' instead of '/')
```
git reset HEAD -- PATH/TO/DIRECTORY
```
Unstage individual files (... means "and so on"; do not type them literally).
```
git reset HEAD -- FILE1 FILE2 ...
```

To avoid this problem in the future, do one of the following.

Stage files individually from now on.
```
git add FILE1 FILE2
git add FILE3
```
Or edit .gitignore to forever ignore these files and stage again. See Atlassian's article on .gitignore.
```
vim .gitignore      # use your favorite editor
git add .
```