Sometime we need to undo last commit in git. This is fairly useful to undo a change made accidentally. Here are quick instructions to do it:
git – soft undo last commit
Undo last commit but keep the changes. This is default option. So you can also skip --soft.
$ git reset --soft HEAD~1 $ git status
In case you need to undo last two commits you can use HEAD~2 as shown below:
$ git reset --soft HEAD~2 $ git status
git – hard undo last commit
Undo last commit and discard the changes
$ git reset --hard HEAD~1 $ git status
Note that HEAD~ or HEAD~1 refers to the first parent of the tip of the current branch and HEAD~2 refers to first parent of first parent and so on.
