Practice this fail.

A little less committed.

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This repository already has commits. src/config.js is tracked, and you accidentally staged its latest edits. Keep those edits on disk.

A little less committed.

$ git status --short

M src/config.js

Right changes. Wrong commit.

A little less committed.

git restore --staged -- src/config.js

With --staged, git restore updates only the staging area. Its default source in this mode is HEAD, so the file’s staged changes are removed while its working-tree edits remain on disk. The repository-has-commits assumption matters because HEAD must exist.