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title: How to Undo a Git Add
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# Undo git add

To undo `git add` before a commit:

Run `git reset <file>` or `git reset` to unstage all changes.

In older versions of git, the commands were `git reset HEAD <file>` and `git reset HEAD` respectively. This was changed in Git 1.8.2

<a href='http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348170/undo-git-add-before-commit/348234#348234' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Source</a>