Undoing my mistake using git reset --hard

Question

I accidentally added some files using git add . . I would like to remove the changes using git reset --hard. When I type so, I get this error message.

fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref

I tried typing git reset --hard HEAD^. Still not able to solve it.

How do I solve it?

Answer 1

It sounds like you're trying to construct the initial commit in a newly created repo.

Since you haven't actually committed anything yet, you can just start over by removing the .git directory and running git init again.

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Alternatively, you can try git rm --cached . to remove the files from the index.