Git reset but keep commit message

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1. Prevent losing the message in the first place

If you know ahead of time that you want to “undo” a commit without losing either your changes or your commit message, use soft reset:
# Move HEAD one commit back, but keep index & working-tree untouched

git reset --soft HEAD~1

	•	What it does
	•	HEAD moves to the previous commit
	•	Your index (staging area) still contains exactly what you had in that commit
	•	Your working tree is untouched

At this point you can simply re-commit, reusing the old message:
# Re-commit, copying the original commit message:

git commit -c ORIG_HEAD

Here, ORIG_HEAD is the ref Git automatically sets to the pre-reset HEAD. The -C <commit> flag tells Git “reuse that commit’s message exactly.”