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Undo “git add”?

I made the mistake of running:

git add .

Which added important things such as .bashrc. Even though I run:

git rm .

When I run:

git push project master

Everything still is added. I've even reinstalled git, but I am still pestered by this. A solution I found was to start over and remove all the files from the commit. Are there any other things I could do to remove all the files from the commit?

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  • By the way, the "hard" way to solve it wouldn't have been re-installing git but deleting (rm -rf) your repository folder and cloning it again (assuming it's a clone of a remote repo).
    – ThiefMaster
    Commented Nov 16, 2010 at 2:18

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Reset to default
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You can use git reset to unstage changes, or even git reset --hard HEAD~ to blow away the most recent commit (careful with that one, it will not even keep your changes around.)

See http://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset

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  • It doesn't work. How I know that is I ran git log --pretty=format: --name-status | cut -f2- | sort -u and it still displayed all of the files.
    – Mohit Deshpande
    Commented Nov 16, 2010 at 2:22
  • If your changes get pushed you've already committed them.
    – ThiefMaster
    Commented Nov 16, 2010 at 2:26
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Use git reset.

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