How to remove accidentally committed files in git?

by darrion.kuhn , in category: Third Party Scripts , 3 months ago

How to remove accidentally committed files in git?

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by deron , 2 months ago

@darrion.kuhn 

If you have accidentally committed files in git and would like to remove them from the commit history, you can do so using the following steps:

  1. Identify the commit that includes the accidentally committed files. You can do this by running git log to see the history of commits.
  2. Use git reset --soft HEAD^ to undo the last commit, while keeping the changes in your working directory.
  3. Use git reset HEAD
  4. Use git rm --cached
  5. Finally, use git commit --amend to commit the changes without the accidentally committed files.
  6. Push the changes to the remote repository by running git push origin


Alternatively, if you want to completely remove the accidentally committed files from the commit history, you can use git reset --hard HEAD^ to reset to the previous commit without keeping the changes in your working directory. However, be cautious when using the --hard option as it will delete all the changes in your working directory.