diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1f654c7b..dd218f69 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Over the last 2 years my go to GUI tool for this was [fork](https://git-fork.com
 * [x] stage files
 * [x] inspect diffs
 * [x] commit
-* [ ] allow selecting/diff index items
+* [x] allow selecting/diff index items
 * [ ] support unstaging
 * [ ] polling in thread
 * [ ] log view
diff --git a/src/git_utils.rs b/src/git_utils.rs
index c76b6ce1..a6a5a9f0 100644
--- a/src/git_utils.rs
+++ b/src/git_utils.rs
@@ -164,8 +164,6 @@ pub fn stage_add(path: &Path) -> bool {
 pub fn stage_reset(path: &Path) -> bool {
     let repo = repo();
 
-    let mut index = repo.index().unwrap();
-
     let reference = repo.head().unwrap();
     let obj = repo
         .find_object(