git undo should work on first commit too
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Description
It works fine except on the first commit it gives this error:
> git undo
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
I think it should do this for the first commit:
git update-ref -d HEAD
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the git undo command entry point and reproduce the failure in a repository whose only commit is HEAD. Compare the first-commit behavior with the linked Stack Overflow guidance; done means git undo succeeds without the HEAD^ error and produces the expected undo result.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100