From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Obry Subject: reverting initial commit Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:12:56 +0100 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <49CA7428.70400@obry.net> Reply-To: pascal@obry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git list X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 25 19:14:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LmXcG-0007Fd-Qi for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:14:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753730AbZCYSMq (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:12:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753220AbZCYSMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:12:45 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]:54959 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750863AbZCYSMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:12:45 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so74869fga.17 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.78.13 with SMTP id a13mr178699fgb.79.1238004761503; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (AVelizy-154-1-49-205.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.124.151.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm6320167fgg.0.2009.03.25.11.12.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:12:41 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B