Undoing Changes: reset, revert & restore

💻 GitLesson 9Intermediate

Git provides safety nets to undo errors, revert previous commits, or reset the local workspace back to a clean tracking state.

1 Restoring and Undoing CLI

Shell — Undo Commands

# Discard modifications in a local file before staging
git restore index.html

# Unstage a file keeping modifications intact
git restore --staged index.html

# Create a new commit that completely reverses a previous commit ID
git revert d5e8f12

# Reset branch head back to commit history state (leaves files modified)
git reset d5e8f12

# WARNING: Hard reset completely wipes staging and files back to target commit
git reset --hard d5e8f12

2 Code Challenge

Challenge: Make some edits to a file, stage it, unstage it using git restore --staged, modify the file again, and discard all modifications using git restore.