Revert the committed to unstaged status

Question

I prepare a project to employ on Heroku,
after git add . and git commit -am "well prepared to deploy",
It come to me forgetting add .gitignore file.

How could I revert the committed to unstaged status.
git reset does not help.

You could just run `git add .gitignore && git commit --amend --no-edit`. If `.gitignore` is also ignored, add `-f` to `git add`. — ElpieKay, May 16 '18 at 10:11
Possible duplicate of [How to modify existing, unpushed commits?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/179123/how-to-modify-existing-unpushed-commits) — phd, May 16 '18 at 11:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '18 at 10:55

This is a typical usage scenario of git commit --amend, to amend the current commit with extra changes.

git add -f .gitignore
git commit --amend --no-edit

with -f to add ignored files and --no-edit to avoid launching the editor if the commit message doesn't need updating.

Revert the committed to unstaged status

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