How to revert uncommitted changes including files and folders

Question

Is there a git command to revert all uncommitted changes in a working tree and index and to also remove newly created files and folders

User · Answer

If you want to revert the changes only in current working directory, use

git checkout -- .

And before that, you can list the files that will be reverted without actually making any action, just to check what will happen, with:

git checkout --

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Please note that there might still be files that won t seem to disappear - they might be unedited  but git might have marked them as being edited because of CRLF   LF changes  See if you ve made some changes in  gitattributes recently   In my case I ve added CRLF settings into the  gitattributes file and all the files remained in the  modified files  list because of this  Changing the  gitattributes settings made them disappear

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If you have an uncommitted change  its only in your working copy  that you wish to revert  to the copy in your latest commit  do the following   git checkout filename

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You can run these two commands     Revert changes to modified files  git reset --hard    Remove all untracked files and directories     -f  is force   -d  is remove directories  git clean -fd

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Use   git reset HEAD filepath   For example   git reset HEAD om211 src META-INF persistence xml

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Use  git checkout --      to discard changes in working directory  git checkout -- app views posts index html erb   or  git checkout --     removes all changes made to unstaged files in git status eg  modified     app controllers posts rb modified     app views posts index html erb

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One non-trivial way is to run these two commands    git stash  This will move your changes to the stash  bringing you back to the state of HEAD git stash drop  This will delete the latest stash created in the last command

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git clean -fd   didn t help  new files remained  What I did is totally deleting all the working tree and then  git reset --hard   See  How do I clear my local working directory in git   for advice to add the -x option to clean    git clean -fdx   Note -x flag will remove all files ignored by Git so be careful  see discussion in the answer I refer to

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Git 2 23 introduced git restore command to restore working tree files   https   git-scm com docs git-restore  To restore all files in the current directory     git restore     If you want to restore all C source files to match the version in the index  you can do     git restore    c

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From Git help   Changes to be committed         use  quot git restore --staged  lt file gt     quot  to unstage       Changes not staged for commit         use  quot git add  lt file gt     quot  to update what will be committed         use  quot git restore  lt file gt     quot  to discard changes in working directory

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You can just use following git command which can revert back all the uncommitted changes made in your repository   git checkout     Example   ABC ABC-PC MINGW64  c xampp htdocs pod admin  master    git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with  origin master    Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory           modified    application controllers Drivers php         modified    application views drivers add php         modified    application views drivers load driver info php         modified    uploads drivers drivers xlsx  no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a    ABC ABC-PC MINGW64  c xampp htdocs pod admin  master    git checkout    ABC ABC-PC MINGW64  c xampp htdocs pod admin  master    git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with  origin master    nothing to commit  working tree clean

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I usually use this way that works well   mv fold file  tmp git checkout fold file

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I think you can use the following command  git reset --hard

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A safe and long way    git branch todelete git checkout todelete git add   git commit -m  I did a bad thing  sorry  git checkout develop git branch -D todelete

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