How to discard all changes made to a branch

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I m working in a branch  i e  design  and I ve made a number of changes  but I need to discard them all and reset it to match the repository version  I thought git checkout design would do it  but it just tells me I m already in branch design and that I have 3 modified files   How would I discard those changes and get the branch as it stands now on the remote server

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Note  You CANNOT UNDO this   Try git checkout -f this will discard any local changes which are not committed in ALL branches and master

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In the source root   git reset    HEAD   lt --un-stage any staged changes  git checkout        lt --discard any unstaged changes

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git reset --hard can help you if you want to throw away everything since your last commit

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git checkout -f  This is suffice for your question  Only thing is  once its done  its done  There is no undo

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REVERSIBLE Method to Discard All Changes  I found this question after after making a merge and forgetting to checkout develop immediately afterwards   You guessed it  I started modifying a few files directly on master  D Oh  As my situation is hardly unique  we ve all done it  haven t we  - gt    I ll offer a reversible way I used to discard all changes to get master looking like develop again  After doing a git diff to see what files were modified and assess the scope of my error  I executed  git stash git stash clear  After first stashing all the changes  they were next cleared  All the changes made to the files in error to master were gone and parity restored  Let s say I now wanted to restore those changes  I can do this  First step is to find the hash of the stash I just cleared dropped  git fsck --no-reflog   awk   dangling commit   print  3    After learning the hash  I successfully restored the uncommitted changes with  git stash apply hash-of-cleared-stash  I didn t really want to restore those changes  just wanted to validate I could get them back  so I cleared them again  Another option is to apply the stash to a different branch  rather than wipe the changes   So in terms of clearing changes made from working on the wrong branch  stash gives you a lot of flexibility to recover from your boo-boo  Anyhoo  if you want a reversible means of clearing changes to a branch  the foregoing is a less dangerous way in this use-case

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If you don t want any changes in design and definitely want it to just match a remote s branch  you can also just delete the branch and recreate it     Switch to some branch other than design   git br -D design   git co -b design origin design              Will set up design to track origin s design branch

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git diff master  gt  branch diff git apply --reverse branch diff

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Will  git immersion is a really nice and simple git tutorial  it will show you how to undo changes for the following cases  unstaged  staged and committed  labs 14-18

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When you want to discard changes in your local branch  you can stash these changes using git stash command   git stash save  some name   Your changes will be saved and you can retrieve those later if you want or you can delete it  After doing this  your branch will not have any uncommitted code and you can pull the latest code from your main branch using git pull

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