How to Remove Files from a Previous Git Commit

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Tuesday, August 11th, 2015

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Tuesday, August 11th, 2015

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If you have accidentally staged and committed files did you did not intend to, perhaps using git commit -a, and you have not pushed them to a shared repo, you can undo that like so...

# Reset to HEAD - 1 commit
git reset --soft HEAD~1

# Remove the file(s) you do not want to include in this commit.
git reset HEAD path/to/unwanted_file

# Commit the files still staged.
git commit -m "Commit message does this."

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