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Undo changes

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- [Narrator] In this video, I want to look at the Undo feature in Visual Studio, which makes it easy to undo changes to your working tree. So right now, I'm in PowerShell, and I've run git status and I see that I've got nothing to commit, working tree is clean. So let's change that. Over in Visual Studio, I'll modify this one file here, this countries.txt file. I'll make a trivial change here, change the name of this country, and then save my changes. Visual Studio tells me there's a pending edit with the red check mark. Over in PowerShell, when I run git status, I now see that I've got this modified file. And of course I need to commit that to save the changes. Now I realized that I really didn't want to make that change. So how do I undo that action? In Visual Studio, with this simple trivial change, I could just do a Control + Z to undo that change. And then I still have the red check mark here because it's…

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