Git Reset File Tutorial

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The git provides a lot of features where resetting file is one of them. We can use different commands to reset files in git. In this tutorial we examine the git reset commands to reset staging, specific commits, or local changes.

Reset Staging File

We can reset the staging file by using the git reset command with the HEAD .

$ git reset HEAD -- conf/main.c

Reset File To Specific Commit

The git checkout command is used to check different branches’ commits etc. We can reset a file into a specific commit by providing the commit ID and file name.

$ git checkout 2ad245ffeb -- conf/main.c

Reset Local Changes

We can also reset local changes before staging. We just use the “git checkout” with the file name like below.

$ git checkout -- conf/main.c

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