FAQ: How to Backtrack - git reset I

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This community-built FAQ covers the “git reset I” exercise from the lesson “How to Backtrack”.

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What’s the difference between
git reset HEAD filename
and
git reset filename?

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I don’t know how to make a commit to save the Larry/Laertes name swap in hamlet from the terminal can someone help me. its the 5th intruction from HOW TO BACKTRACK

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git commit -m “Add LEARTES”

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i was stuck there also lol

9

In this exercise we make changes to scene-2.txt, add it to the staging area, and then unstage the file. We subsequently commit other changes.

But after the commit, I closed scene-2.txt and reopened it, and found that the changes were still present in that file.

If scene-2.txt had never been committed, how would one go about recovering the changed content in that file? In the exercise I only changed a line, but imagine that many parts had been changed in different parts of the file. Perhaps the solution is to do an initial commit to be able to restore a previous version?

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I was thinking the same think as “doctorplatano”.
What happens if “scene-2.txt” has never previously been committed? How can it be “reset” from HEAD if there is nothing in HEAD?

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What does it mean?

What if, before you commit, you accidentally delete an important line from scene-2.txt? Unthinkingly, you add scene-2.txt to the staging area.

I thought you need to explicitly execute git add to get any changes to the staging area. But it seems from that excerpt they are added automatically

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The answer here is git commit -m “LEARTES”

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I deleted a line. Added the file to the staging area. I un-staged the file using $ git reset HEAD scene-2.txt. I made a commit regarding the change of name. When I closed and reopened the file, the line I deleted was still gone. Please help.

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this is normale bec, whit git reset HEAD filename command you are removing changes from the staging area, but those changes remain in your working directory.