#Revert single file to master git how to#

Using git to remove the updates Case 1: You haven’t yet committed the unwanted updates to your local repository. If you’d already pushed the changes up to a remote repository, push the new commit now too.The new commit wipes out your previous changes. If you’d already committed your unwanted changes, create another commit now.If you had not yet committed your unwanted changes, then you don’t need to do any more.Copy the entire content of the file and paste it into your copy of the file.Find the original version of the file, either on your fork if you forked from the main repository, or on the repository from which you cloned your local repository.You can remove the updates manually, by copy-pasting the original contents of the file into your version of the file. You’ll lose the updates when you follow the steps described below. If you still need the updates that you made to the file, perhaps to include in another PR, copy and save the updates somewhere outside your Git working area. Note: Save your updates if you need them. If the unwanted updates are in an entirely new file that you created, then you can delete the file from your file system, then run git rm followed by git commit to remove the file from the PR. The instructions below assume that the unwanted updates are in a file that already exists in the GitHub repository.If you have merged the PR, then you should revert the PR and create a new PR with just the updates you need. The instructions below assume that you have not yet merged the PR into the GitHub repository.

The basic principle is: Undo the changes that you made to the file, to make the file disappear from the PR. (Because, if you delete the file, then that deletion becomes part of your change set, which is not what you want at all.) You don’t want to delete the file itself, you just want to revert the inclusion of the file in the PR. Now you want to remove the file from the PR. Say you changed the content of a file by mistake, and to your surprise the file has become part of your set of changes tracked by Git, and has thus become part of your pull request (PR).

#Revert single file to master git how to#

This post derives from the fact that I searched the internet for “remove file from PR” and was led astray by helpful people telling me how to use Git to delete a file. This is my third post about GitHub techniques that aren’t necessarily obvious to those of us who think in non-Git terminology.