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title: Undo my changes
description: Put a finished change back exactly as it was from the desktop app — what undo restores, what it leaves alone, and when it refuses.
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Choose **Undo my changes…** on a finished task, or say *"undo your changes"*.

> Diagram: Undo restores exactly what I changed, or refuses rather than guess.

I ask first, and name the files:

![The undo confirmation naming the files](../assets/screens/desktop/undo-confirm.webp){ width="1440" height="891" }
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Undo names the files it will put back.
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## What it does

- A file I edited goes back to exactly what it was before I started.
- A file I created is removed.
- **Your own changes stay.**

It works the same with or without Git.

## When I refuse

I stop and tell you, and change nothing, when:

- **you've edited those files since.** I won't overwrite your work;
- **the change is already committed.** Undoing a commit means a new commit
  that reverts it, never rewriting history. Ask me for that instead;
- **I'm still working.** Stop me first.

## Go further back

**Rewind…** returns the folder to an earlier point in the conversation. I ask
before doing it.