Question

How can I remove a file from my last commit, but keep everything else? Please note that I haven’t yet pushed anything to a remote repository, so I just have to do this locally.

My workflow:

• Edit a few files
• Accidentally create a new file named untitled.txt
• Commit everything
• Notice the unwanted untitled.txt file
• Delete it
• ???
• Live happily ever after

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can easily change whatever you like in your last commit (messages, files, etc) with git commit --amend.

So you would do something like this:

git rm untitled.txt
git commit --amend