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You indeed have to recommit everything (which I prefer) but you don't have to reset anything (since nothing is in the staging area).

• u801e 8y ago
  >> If you end up staging the wrong hunk, then you will have to reset and recommit > you don't have to reset anything You have to reset the branch pointer to the previous commit, but I think using the --amend switch may do that for you.
  • tome 8y ago
    If you exit the commit message editor so that it retuns a non-zero exit code to git then nothing is committed and nothing is staged.
    • dllthomas 8y ago
      With git, usually (maybe always?) exiting having saved an empty buffer is equivalent.