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		mapmeld on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gitjk – command to undo what you just did in git somehow when I was testing it, I thought I needed to use rm -r --cached to remove a previously untracked file. It should do git reset in most cases. Edit: now recommends git reset unless you did "git add ." or something like that.

achal on May 26, 2014 [–]

You may have been on your initial commit; in that case, you need to use rm --cached instead of reset to undo a git add.

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