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I’m trying to learn Git. I’m confused between
git rm --cached file
and
git reset file
both of the commands seem to take the file from staged to un-staged area. How do the commands differ?
git rm --cached <file>will completely remove the file’s contents from the index. This means that on commit the file will be removed from theHEADcommit. (If the file was only added to the index and not yet tracked this is a “no-op”.)git reset -- <file>resets the contents of the file in the index to be the same as the head commit. This means that on commit no changes will be committed to the file. This operation is not valid if there is no tracked version of the file in theHEADcommit.