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Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes

#1

Post by below43 » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:14 AM UTC

Equivalent of "git reset --soft HEAD~1". Got sick of googling it every time with my goldfish memory.

Just a brew package at this point, but feel free to suggest alternatives.

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Re: Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes

#2

Post by myst » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 3:22 AM UTC

You can do an alias.

Re: Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes

#3

Post by below43 » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

myst wrote: post #2

You can do an alias.

Good point. TIL :)

git config --global alias.uncommit 'reset --soft HEAD~1'

Re: Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes

#4

Post by westurner » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 4:08 AM UTC

From "How core Git developers configure Git" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179071 :

> skwp/git-workflows-book > .gitconfig appendix: https://github.com/skwp/git-workflows-book : > "Two useful aliases: unstage and uncommit": https://github.com/skwp/git-workflows-book#two-useful-aliase... :

  [alias]
  unstage = reset HEAD              # remove files from index (tracking)
  uncommit = reset --soft HEAD^     # go back before last commit, with files in uncommitted state

Re: Show HN: Git uncommit – reset unpushed, committed changes

#5

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 22, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC

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