How to cancel a local git commit

Question

My issue is I have changed a file eg: README, added a new line \'this for my testing line\' and saved the file, then I issued the following commands

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Answer 1

Just use git reset without the --hard flag:

git reset HEAD~1

PS: 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?.