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                How to split a Git commit and preserve message using ORIG_HEAD #git #commit #ORIG_HEAD https://twitter.com/albertarv/status/954389020758495233
              
          
    How to split a Git commit and preserve message using ORIG_HEAD

A colleague told me he'd accidentally committed something. Now he wanted to remove it from the previous
commit and then put in a new commit. This is called splitting a commit, and here's the best way I know of how to do it.
Solution


git reset --soft HEAD~ Undo the last commit, but preserve "Changes to be committed"
git reset <some/path> Exclude what you want
git commit -C ORIG_HEAD Commit with the same message as before, which was stored in ORIG_HEAD

Example