lab 16 Undoing Staged Changes
(before committing)
Goals
- Learn how to revert changes that have been staged
Change the file and stage the change
Modify the hello.rb file to have a bad comment
hello.rb
# This is an unwanted but staged comment
names = ARGV || ["World"]
puts "Hello, #{names.join(" ")}!"
puts "You have #{names.length} names!"
And then go ahead and stage it.
Execute:
git add hello.rb
Check the Status
Check the status of your unwanted change.
Execute:
git status
Output:
$ git status On branch main Changes to be committed: (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage) modified: hello.rb
The status output shows that the change has been staged and is ready to be committed.
Restore the Staged File
The restore command from the previous lab also works to unstage changes to a file.
Execute:
git restore --staged hello.rb
Output:
$ git restore --staged hello.rb
The restore command only unstaged the file. We can repeat the command to remove the unwanted changes from the working directory.
Restore the Committed Version
Execute:
git restore hello.rb git status
Output:
$ git status On branch main nothing to commit, working tree clean
And our working directory is clean once again.