reverting initial commit

From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: Mar 25, 2009, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <49CA7428.70400@obry.net>

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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