Unstage Changes Wih Git Restore

Git 2.23 introduced the restore command which is a more direct alternative to checkout and reset for restoring the state of the working tree and the index (staging area).

With the --staged flag, we can unstage changes, moving them from the index to the working tree.

To restore a file in the index to match the version in HEAD (this is the same as using git-reset(1))

$ git restore --staged README.md

Staged changes to README.md will be removed from the index and put on the working tree.

$ git restore --staged .

That will unstage all changes on the index.

This is now recommended by Git when you run git status:

(use "git restore --staged ..." to unstage)

See man git-restore for more details.