How to cancel a local git commit?
Just use git reset without the --hard flag:
git reset HEAD~1PS: On Unix based systems you can use HEAD^ which is equal to HEAD~1. On Windows HEAD^ will not work because ^ signals a line continuation. So your command prompt will just ask you More?.
Use --soft instead of --hard flag:
git reset --soft HEAD^It will remove the last local (unpushed) commit, but will keep changes you have done.
If you're in the middle of a commit (i.e. in your editor already), you can cancel it by deleting all lines above the first #. That will abort the commit.
So you can delete all lines so that the commit message is empty, then save the file:
You'll then get a message that says Aborting commit due to empty commit message..