Re: Proposal: "unadd" command / alias.

From: Filipp Bakanov <filipp@bakanov.su>
Date: Oct 27, 2020, 22:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAdniQ4vx4z9KnfvG7thzxf1xBa=P_nnbY1G=RTFUBb4Zxqeaw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201027215638.GI5691@mit.edu>

>> Indeed, I have a similar alias in my ~/.gitconfig

Why not just add it to git by default for everybody? revert-file is also ok, anything except `checkout HEAD --` will be good.

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:56, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Filipp Bakanov <filipp@bakanov.su> writes:
> >
> > > Hi! I suggest to add "unadd" command, that will undo a git add command.
> > >
> > > git unadd path/to/file
> > >
> > > It will be an alias to:
> > >
> > > git reset HEAD -- path/to/file
> > >
> > > The motivation is that I always forget syntax and have to google each
> > > time I want to undo accidentally added files. Unadd is just much
> > > easier to remember and quite obvious.
> >
> > The alias is for you to do the above, I think.
>
> Filipp,
>
> Indeed, I have a similar alias in my ~/.gitconfig
>
> [alias]
>         revert-file = checkout HEAD --
>
> Adding
>
> [alias]
>         unadd = reset HEAD --
>
> to your .gitconfig would do what you want.  As a BTW, my favorite
> alias is:
>
>    lgt = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit
>
> Sample usage: "git lgt origin.." or "git lgt -10".
>
> Cheers,
>
>                                         - Ted