Hi, as written here https://git-scm.com/community I should sent reports to this list - if I am mistaken please tell me where to direct this question / problem I've encountered. I've got a problem with a git branch and as this is the second time now (I never hit that problem before I've started using the "new" git restore --staged command - but since I am using it its the second time now - maybe by accident, maybe related - I don't know). Maybe someone can help me with this matter. I am using 2.24.1 git and my starting point was a local branch and I wanted to removed some files from the last commit I made. So I did this: 1. git reset --soft HEAD~1 Now I had all my files from the last commit in the staging area and to remove some of them I did: 2. git restore --staged $my-files This worked too - now those files were moved to the working tree in git status and were untracked and the rest looked still fine in the staging area. 3. git commit Now I made my commit - had a look on that with git show and it looks fine. But now I've hit the problem - looking with "git status" I was left now with 6 files in the staging area all marked as deleted - still they are in the working tree. But I did never deleted them and the most annoying part now - I can't fix that. I tried: 1. git restore --staged Does not change anything, still deleted in the staging area. 2. git stash Does create a stash entry (did not look at the content though yet) but staging area still unchanged. 3. git commit Does create a commit but the whole commit is empty - nothing from the tracked staging area is there and "git status" is unchanged - still 6 tracked deleted files. I don't know what went wrong and I am unable to fix it - help appreciated. I can't share the whole git repository but I can try whatever git command or other tool output may help here to shed some light on this - as written I don't have a clear reproducer, I just have my branch with a borked staging area. thx and kind regards Torsten PS: Of cause I can delete the whole repo and clone it again or remove the branch and start from a fresh new one ;) but I want to analyse this.
