On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:26:18PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> I recently (and in the past) had an issue where I was using git add
> --interactive and accidentally did something like the following:
>
> # hack lots of randmo changes, then begin trying to commit then separately
> git add -i
> # set only the changes I want
> # accidentally add <file> to the commit
> $git commit -s <file>
> # type up a long commit message
> # notice that I committed everything
>
> At this point I'd like to be able to do something like:
> $git unstage -i
> # select each hunk to unstage
I'd usually do one of:
# undo selectively
git reset -p HEAD^
git commit --amend
or:
# roll back the whole commit
git reset HEAD
# do it right this time
git add -p
# and steal the commit message from the previous attempt
git commit -c HEAD@{1}
-Peff
