Re: Proposal: "unadd" command / alias.

From: Filipp Bakanov <filipp@bakanov.su>
Date: Oct 28, 2020, 13:56 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAdniQ7TGuv0uFjwPOYfzo7zS0v-tEJ9kSWwB86Hjg0XstOE7A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87eelifqii.fsf@yadavpratyush.com>

Thank you for mentioning git restore.

Answering to your question, my brain filtered all the output of git
status except "modified: ..."
There are multiple reasons:
 - command named restore. I don't know what it will restore. Maybe it
will restore a clean version? Maybe it will remove all my changes? I
don't want to risk.
 - I don't know what means "unstage". I didn't run "git stage" to add
my files, why should I run git restore --staged to undo git add? If
command would be named "git unadd" and description would be "undo git
add", it would be more obvious than git restore --staged or git reset.
 I asked my friends, no one remembered how to undo git add. One said:
 " - May be it's git reset but I'm not sure, need to check before
apply". And he agreed that "git unadd" would be a more obvious.

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 16:07, Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:

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>
> On Tue, Oct 27 2020, Filipp Bakanov wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Why do you need to Google when `git status` tells you how to do it?
>
>     $ touch foo
>     $ git add foo
>     $ git status
>     On branch master
>     Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
>
>     Changes to be committed:
>       (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
>         new file:   foo
>
>     $ git restore --staged foo
>     $ git status
>     On branch master
>     Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
>
>     Untracked files:
>       (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>         foo
>
>     nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pratyush Yadav