git reset --hard HEAD leaves untracked files behind

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When I run git reset --hard HEAD  it s supposed to reset to a pristine version of what you pulled  as I understand it   Unfortunately  it leaves files lying around  as a git status shows a big list of untracked files   How do you tell git  Just bring it back to EXACTLY what was in the last pull  nothing more  nothing less

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User interactive approach       git clean -i -fd  Remove  classpath  y N   N Remove  gitignore  y N   N Remove  project  y N   N Remove  settings   y N   N Remove src com amazon arsdumpgenerator inspector   y N   y Remove src com amazon arsdumpgenerator manifest   y N   y Remove src com amazon arsdumpgenerator s3   y N   y Remove tst com amazon arsdumpgenerator manifest   y N   y Remove tst com amazon arsdumpgenerator s3   y N   y   -i for interactive -f for force -d for directory -x for ignored files add if required  Note  Add -n or --dry-run to just check what it will do

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git-clean   Use to remove untracked files in the working tree  Following are some options  in brief  that can use with git clean command   -d use when no path is specified  So git recurse into untracked directories remove them   -f --force To remove nested untracked files   -i --interactive Show what would be done and clean files interactively   -n --dry-run Show what will happen without removing anything   -x ignore files  example  git clean -f -d -  Remove all untracked files in current directory any subdirectories

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The command you are looking for is git clean

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If you have files you still want to keep   git clean -di will do an interactive clean which allows you to only delete the files dirs you don t want anymore

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You might have done a soft reset at some point  you can solve this problem by doing  git add   git reset --hard HEAD 100 git pull

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git reset --hard  amp  amp  git clean -dfx  or  zsh provides a  gpristine  alias  alias gpristine  git reset --hard  amp  amp  git clean -dfx   Which is really handy   warning  The  quot -x quot  will also delete  git ignored  files  so remove this if it is not what you want  If working on a forked repo  make sure to fetch and reset from the correct repo branch  for example  git fetch upstream  amp  amp  git reset --hard upstream master  amp  amp  git clean -df

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Remove all things except  git folder and then run git reset --hard

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You can use git stash  You have to specify --include-untracked  otherwise you ll end up with the original problem  git stash --include-untracked  Then just drop the last entry in the stash git stash drop  You can make a handy-dandy alias for that  and call it git discard for example  git config --global alias discard  quot   git stash -q --include-untracked  amp  amp  git stash drop -q quot

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You have to use git clean -f -d to get rid of untracked files and directories in your working copy  You can add -x to also remove ignored files  more info on that in this excellent SO answer  If you need to reset an entire repository with submodules to the state on master  run this script  git fetch origin master git checkout --force -B master origin master git reset --hard git clean -fdx git submodule update --init --recursive --force git submodule foreach git fetch git submodule foreach git checkout --force -B master origin master git submodule foreach git reset --hard git submodule foreach git clean -fdx

[git] git reset --hard HEAD leaves untracked files behind

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