How To Remove A File From The git Staging Pre-Commit List
erics, Posted May 31st, 2019 at 4:07:10pm
Quickref: How to Remove a file from the staging area
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git rm --cached {fileName(s)} |
The Story
Recently, I accidentally added some files to git’s pre-commit phase, i.e.:
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shell> git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes to be committed: (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) new file: good1.xml new file: good2.xml new file: bad1.xml new file: bad2.xml modified: good3.xml modified: bad3.xml |
For example, here is how to handle the above situation:
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shell> git rm --cached bad1.xml bad2.xml bad3.xml shell> git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes to be committed: (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) new file: good1.xml new file: good2.xml modified: good3.xml Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) bad1.xml bad2.xml bad3.xml |
To better understand, here are the phases/states/stages that git uses:
- Untracked – when a file is first created, git sees it and knows it has not yet been told to handle this file
- Staged/Indexed – git add will signal git to start tracking the file, and so git places the file into the staging state, ready to commit
- Committed – the git commit command can be called upon a single file or use -a to commit all staged files
- Modified- a file has already been committed at least once before, and now new changes exist in the local file(s) which are not committed or staged yet.
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