GIT: I want to unstage all files matching a certain pattern

Question

I would like to run

git reset *.foo

but this errors out.

I think I need to use a pipe, but I\'m not sure how to do this.

Th

Answer 1

for i in `git status --porcelain | grep '^D.*\.foo$' | sed 's/^D \+//'`; do
    git reset HEAD "$i"
    git checkout "$i"
done

Answer 2

In a Git GUI application like SmartGit I would filter the displayed files by the pattern *.foo, press Ctrl+A to select all the filtered files and invoke the Unstage command.

Answer 3

White space in filename was causing problems using the git diff approaches but the following worked:

find ./ -name "*.foo" -exec git reset {} \;

Execution is verbose if there are many files to be unstaged.

Answer 4

Simply use git reset *mypattern*

EDIT: Also try git restore, but be VERY careful as it seems to be bugged at the time of writing.

Answer 5

E.g. I want to match all "migrations" in path.

git diff --name-only | grep migrations | xargs git checkout

Answer 6

This should work in cygwin and unix env

git reset $(git diff --name-only --cached | grep *.foo)