Re: reverting initial commit

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:12, Pascal Obry [off-list ref] wrote:

Starting a new project I create a new repo and added some files for the
initial revision of the project, something like:

mkdir repo.git
cd repo.git
git init
touch file
git add file
git ci -m "initial revision"

Now one file was not meant to be committed, I wanted to revert this commit:

git reset HEAD^

fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

I understand that HEAD^ does not exist, is there a way to do that?

Thanks,
Pascal.

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You want "git filter-branch".  Probably something like:

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatched
FILE_TO_REMOVE' -- --all

This will remove FILE_TO_REMOVE from all commits across all branches.

-Jacob