Aliasing git reset --soft HEAD^ as git undo

I keep forgetting how to undo a commit with git because i very rarely need it. But i figured if i aliased it to git undo i wouldn’t need to google the command every time. Now how does one do that? It turned out to be pretty simple actually.

Update: I’ve made an easy extension to git that makes this command more easy to remember, i call it gitUndo. With that extension all you need run is: git undo commit.

Git reset

The command to undo a commit and reset to the commit before HEAD and keeping the changes is:

git reset --soft HEAD^

And to add this as an alias to the .gitconfig file use this command:

git config --global alias.undo 'reset --soft HEAD^'

Now when running git undo in the terminal your commit will be reset.

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