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

If you are using Powershell the following will work.

gci -re -in *foo | %{ git reset $_ } 

Answer 2

If you want to checkout (undo changes) of unstaged modified files matching a given pattern, this works:

macOS:

git checkout $(git st -s | sed -E 's/^.{2}//' | grep '\.foo$')

Unix:

git checkout $(git st -s | sed -r 's/^.{2}//' | grep '\.foo$')

I've only tested this with M modified files. YMMV if you have renamed/deleted/conflicted files as well.