On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 01:34:03AM -0700, davilda_ wrote: > i'm new with git and i just want to cancel a commit. I just do git add and > git commit. > How can i canceled a commit in my case. Usually with "git reset HEAD^". But I'm guessing from your subject line that you tried that, and it did not work because this commit is the _only_ commit in your repository (and "HEAD^", which means "the parent commit of HEAD", does not make any sense, as there is no parent). Annoyingly, I don't think there is an easy way with the current tools to handle this corner case (you want to not reset to a commit, but back to the "unborn branch" state). The "simplest" way to do that is: rm .git/refs/heads/master but that is not guaranteed to work in future versions of git, and I wouldn't recommend it in general. Probably a better workflow is to create the commit state you _do_ want (change files, "git add" them, etc), and then run "git commit --amend" to replace the bad commit. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html