Unstage a deleted file in git

Question

Usually, to discard changes to a file you would do:

git checkout -- 

What if the change I want to discard is deleting the file?

Answer 1

From manual page,

git-reset - Reset current HEAD to the specified state
git reset [-q] [] [--] ...
In the first and second form, copy entries from  to the index.

for example, when we use git reset HEAD~1 it reset our current HEAD to HEAD~1

so when we use git reset 'some-deleted-file-path'

git assume 'some-deleted-file-path' as some commit point and try to reset out current HEAD to there.

And it ends up fail

fatal: ambiguous argument 'some-deleted-file-path': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.