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.

Thanks!

Fullblown

Note: these files have been staged as deleted. i.e. the files are no longer in my working directory. So I guess I need something like git checkout *.foo – Fullblown

Answer 1

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

Corrigible

Thanks. Now, the staged change was to delete these files. so, will this still work? the file is actually already deleted in the directory – Fullblown

No, that will not work. I will update my answer with a new command. – Corrigible

ahhhhh, I actually want to run this on files with pattern *.gen.cs – Fullblown

Hmm, that should work. Can you verify that git status --porcelain outputs those files? – Corrigible

git reset HEAD <file>; git checkout <file> is equivalent to git checkout HEAD <file>. – Interdisciplinary

Answer 2

Now git restore is perfectly working, thus for me the easiest has been:

git restore '*.foo'

like in @César Noreña answer.

However, another pretty easy and very flexible way would be:

git diff --name-only --relative | grep '.foo' | xargs git restore

and it is flexible because you can use all grep options, or even replace grep with something else.

Helaine

Answer 3

If you are using Powershell the following will work.

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

Monomer

Answer 4

This should work in cygwin and unix env

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

Shatzer

Strangely with the asterisk this unstaged all files for me. Without the asterisk it complains about relative paths. This worked, git reset -- $(git diff --name-only --cached | grep .foo) – Liquidation

Answer 5

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.

Clotilde

Answer 6

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.

Jopa

Answer 7

You can try restore the files with git restore '*.foo'

Lindbergh

Answer 8

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

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

Libido

Answer 9

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.

Comedietta

Answer 10

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.

Fungus