From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:26:27 GMT
Subject: Re: reverting initial commit
Message-ID: <7v1vsl4fxo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49CA7428.70400@obry.net>

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> 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:

That's not even an revert.  Can't you simply amend it away?

	$ git rm not-this-file
        $ git commit --amend