Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

quoted text
> Incidentally though, is there any way to make a commit completely go 
> away without resetting the files?

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but after I
make a commit and find a mistake (either in the checked-in files
or commit log message), I do this:

	$ git reset --soft HEAD^
        ... fix the checked-in files, maybe do git-add files that
        ... I forgot to add when I made the last commit.
        $ git commit -a -c ORIG_HEAD ;# edit commit log, too.

Soft reset leaves the working tree files intact and just rewinds
the .git/HEAD to whatever commit you specify, and as a side
effect stores the original .git/HEAD in .git/ORIG_HEAD.  The
lowercase -c flag to git-commit is "bring the commit log editor,
initialized with the commit log message from that commit".

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