git Switch branch and ignore any changes without committing

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I was working on a git branch and was ready to commit my changes  so I made a commit with a useful commit message  I then absentmindedly made minor changes to the code that are not worth keeping  I now want to change branches  but git gives me      error  You have local changes to  X   cannot switch branches    Can I change branches without committing  If so  how can I set this up  If not  how do I get out of this problem  I want to ignore the minor changes without committing and just change branches

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If you want to keep the changes and change the branch in a single line command  git stash  amp  amp  git checkout  lt branch name gt   amp  amp  git stash pop

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If you want to discard the changes   git checkout --  lt file gt  git checkout branch   If you want to keep the changes   git stash save git checkout branch git stash pop

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Note that if you ve merged remote branches or have local commits and want to go back to the remote HEAD you must do   git reset --hard origin HEAD   HEAD alone will only refer to the local commit merge -- several times I have forgotten that when resetting and end up with  your repository is X commits ahead    when I fully intended to nuke ALL changes commits and return to the remote branch

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Move uncommited changes to a new branch  I created a  gitconfig alias for this    alias  spcosp     git stash push  amp  amp  git checkout         amp  amp  git stash pop --index      To change to new-branch-name  use   git spcosp new-branch-name   And any non-commited file and index changes will be kept

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Close terminal  delete the folder where your project is  then clone again your project and voil

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git checkout -f your branch name  git checkout -f your branch name   if you have troubles reverting changes    git checkout     if you want to remove untracked directories and files    git clean -fd

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well  it should be  git stash save git checkout branch    do something git checkout oldbranch git stash pop

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Follow       git checkout -f     git checkout next branch

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If you have made changes to files that Git also needs to change when switching branches  it won t let you  To discard working changes  use   git reset --hard HEAD   Then  you will be able to switch branches

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To switch to other branch without committing the changes when git stash doesn t work  You can use the below command   git checkout -f branch-name

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switching to a new branch losing changes   git checkout -b YOUR NEW BRANCH NAME --force   switching to an existing branch losing changes   git checkout YOUR BRANCH --force

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Follow these steps   Git stash save will save all your changes even if you switch between branches    git stash save    Git checkout any other branch  now since you saved your changes you can move around any branch  The above command will make sure that your changes are saved    git checkout branch    Now when you come back to the branch use this command to get all your changes back    git stash pop

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None of these answers helped me because I still had untracked files even after reset and stash  I had to do   git reset --hard HEAD git clean -d -f

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You need a clean state to change branches  The branch checkout will only be allowed if it does not affect the  dirty files   as Charles Bailey remarks in the comments    Otherwise  you should either    stash your current change or reset --hard HEAD   if you do not mind losing those minor changes  or checkout -f  When switching branches  proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD  This is used to throw away local changes      Or  more recently    With Git 2 23  August 2019  and the new command git switch  git switch -f  lt branch-name gt   -f is short for --force  which is an alias for --discard-changes       Proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD    Both the index and working tree are restored to match the switching target     This differs from git switch -m  lt branch-name gt   which triggers a three-way merge between the current branch  your working tree contents  and the new branch is done  you won t loose your work in progress that way

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Easy Answer   is to force checkout a branch   git checkout -f  lt branch name gt    Force checking out a branch is telling git to drop all changes you ve made in the current branch  and checkout out the desired one   or in case you re checking out a commit  git checkout -f  lt commit-hash gt          thought that I could change branches without committing  If so  how   can I set this up  If not  how do I get out of this problem     The answer to that is No  that s literally the philosophy of Git that you keep track of all changes  and that each node  i e  commit  has to be up-to-date with the latest changes you ve made  unless you ve made a new commit of course     You decided to keep changes   Then stash them using  git stash   and then to unstash your changes in the desired branch  use   git stash apply   which will apply you changes but keep them in the stash queue too  If you don t want to keep them in the stash stack  then pop them using   git stash pop   That s the equivalent of apply and then drop

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