Summary - Undoing changes

Combine checkout and restore to undo changes.

Combine restoration methods

Git restoration methods depend on where the changes are located. You can discard working tree changes with git checkout -- or git restore, and unstage changes with git restore --staged.

git restore notes.txt
git restore --staged report.txt
git status

These commands do not delete the latest commit; they only change the working tree or staging state of the specified files.

Exercise Fix the state of two files

Discard the working tree changes in page.html. Unstage style.css while preserving its working tree changes. Finally, run git status.

Show example solution

git restore sayfa.html
git restore --staged stil.css
git status

Test yourself

Which command unstages changes while preserving them?
- git restore file.txt
- git restore --staged file.txt
- git rm file.txt
- git checkout -- file.txt
Show answer

git restore --staged file.txt — <code>git restore --staged</code> unstages the file while preserving its working tree changes.
Restore the working tree
```
git ____ page.html
```
Show answer
```
git restore page.html
```
Match restoration commands

git checkout -- a.txt

Restores working tree
git restore b.txt

Modern restoration
git restore --staged c.txt

Unstages a file
HEAD

Identifies latest commit

Next lesson: What is a branch?

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