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I made changes to some of my files in my local repo, and then I did git add -A which I think added too many files to the staging area. How can I delete all the files from the staging area?
After I do that, I'll just manually do git add "filename".
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To remove a file from Git, you have to remove it from your tracked files (more accurately, remove it from your staging area) and then commit. The git rm command does that, and also removes the file from your working directory so you don't see it as an untracked file the next time around.
Using the git rm <file> --cached method While rm should be employed when removing files from your working directory, effectively erasing a file from existence, git rm will remove files or file modifications from the Git staging index.
Removing staged file Either use the “-f” option to forcefully remove the file from the index and working directory or use the “–cached” option to remove the file from the index/staging area but keep it local. In the second option, you will reach the state before the git add command.
The easiest way to delete a file in your Git repository is to execute the “git rm” command and to specify the file to be deleted. Note that by using the “git rm” command, the file will also be deleted from the filesystem.
You can unstage files from the index using
git reset HEAD -- path/to/file Just like git add, you can unstage files recursively by directory and so forth, so to unstage everything at once, run this from the root directory of your repository:
git reset HEAD -- . Also, for future reference, the output of git status will tell you the commands you need to run to move files from one state to another.
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Use
git reset to unstage all the staged files.
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