Undo Pushed Changes to a File
I Recently Pushed a Commit of Changes of a Project in a Remote Repository. I Just Figured out That One of the Files That I Usually Don't Commit Its Changes...
I recently pushed a commit of changes of a project in a remote repository. I just figured out that one of the files that I usually don't commit its changes because it could contain sensitive information was included.
I want to undo the committed changes to that file (to the last previous state) without losing the changes of the commit in the other files.
From this:
- Change FileSensitive -- ++
- Change File1
- Change File2
- New File3
- New File4
To this:
- Change File1
- Change File2
- New File3
- New File4
For the moment, only I have access to that repository, so there's no problem for rewriting history, so when I give access to that remote repository they won't see that sensitive info in history. So, how can I do that?
1 Answer
git reset --soft HEAD^to undo the last commit keeping all changes made by the last commit in the index.git checkout HEAD <path to FileSensitive>to unstage and discard the change on FileSensitive. (Note the change on FileSensitive is lost by this command.)git commitandgit push -fto update the remote repo.
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