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* maint:
  Documentation/git-reset: Add an example of resetting selected paths
  Documentation/git-reset: don't mention --mixed for selected-paths reset
  Documentation/git-reset:
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Junio C Hamano committed Feb 17, 2008
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SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
'git-reset' [--mixed | --soft | --hard] [-q] [<commit>]
'git-reset' [--mixed] [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>...
'git reset' [--mixed | --soft | --hard] [-q] [<commit>]
'git reset' [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>...

DESCRIPTION
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--soft::
Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all, but
requires them to be in a good order. This leaves all your changed
files "Added but not yet committed", as linkgit:git-status[1] would
files "Changes to be committed", as linkgit:git-status[1] would
put it.

--hard::
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committed as 'snapshot WIP'. This updates the index to show your
WIP files as uncommitted.

Reset a single file in the index::
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Suppose you have added a file to your index, but later decide you do not
want to add it to your commit. You can remove the file from the index
while keeping your changes with git reset.
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------------
$ git reset -- frotz.c <1>
$ git commit -m "Commit files in index" <2>
$ git add frotz.c <3>
------------
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<1> This removes the file from the index while keeping it in the working
directory.
<2> This commits all other changes in the index.
<3> Adds the file to the index again.

Author
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Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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