How do I revert all local changes in Git managed project to previous state

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I have a project in which I ran git init  After several commits  I did git status which told me everything was up to date and there were no local changes    Then I made several consecutive changes and realized I wanted to throw everything away and get back to my original state  Will this command do it for me   git reset --hard HEAD

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simply execute -   git stash   it will remove all your local changes  and you can also use it later by executing -   git stash apply

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Re-clone  GIT   git rev-parse --show-toplevel  cd  GIT    rm -rf  GIT git clone          Deletes local  non-pushed commits   Reverts changes you made to tracked files   Restores tracked files you deleted   Deletes files dirs listed in  gitignore  like build files    Deletes files dirs that are not tracked and not in  gitignore  You won t forget this approach  Wastes bandwidth     Following are other commands I forget daily   Clean and reset  git clean --force -d -x git reset --hard      Deletes local  non-pushed commits   Reverts changes you made to tracked files   Restores tracked files you deleted   Deletes files dirs listed in  gitignore  like build files    Deletes files dirs that are not tracked and not in  gitignore   Clean  git clean --force -d -x      Deletes local  non-pushed commits   Reverts changes you made to tracked files   Restores tracked files you deleted   Deletes files dirs listed in  gitignore  like build files    Deletes files dirs that are not tracked and not in  gitignore   Reset  git reset --hard      Deletes local  non-pushed commits   Reverts changes you made to tracked files   Restores tracked files you deleted   Deletes files dirs listed in  gitignore  like build files    Deletes files dirs that are not tracked and not in  gitignore     Notes  Test case for confirming all the above  use bash or sh    mkdir project cd project git init echo    built   gt   gitignore echo  CODE   gt  a sourceCode mkdir b echo  CODE   gt  b b sourceCode cp -r b c git add   git commit -m  Initial checkin  echo  NEW FEATURE   gt  gt  a sourceCode cp a sourceCode a built rm -rf c echo  CODE   gt   d sourceCode    See also   git revert to make new commits that undo prior commits git checkout to go back in time to prior commits  may require running above commands first  git stash same as git reset above  but you can undo it

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After reading a bunch of answers and trying them  I ve found various edge cases that mean sometimes they don t fully clean the working copy  Here s my current bash script for doing it  which works all the time     bin sh git reset --hard git clean -f -d git checkout HEAD  Run from working copy root directory

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Try this for revert all changes uncommited in local branch    git reset --hard HEAD   But if you see a error like this   fatal  Unable to create   directory for your project  git index lock   File exists    You can navigate to   git  folder then delete index lock file     cd  directory for your project  git    rm index lock   Finaly  run again the command     git reset --hard HEAD

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If you want to revert all changes AND be up-to-date with the current remote master  for example you find that the master HEAD has moved forward since you branched off it and your push is being  rejected   you can use  git fetch    will fetch the latest changes on the remote git reset --hard origin master   will set your local branch to match the representation of the remote just pulled down

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I searched for a similar issue     Wanted to throw away local commits    cloned the repository    git clone    switched to dev branch     git checkout dev    did few commits            git commit -m  commit 1     but decided to throw away these local commits to go back to remote  origin dev    So did the below     git reset --hard origin dev   Check     git status            On branch dev           Your branch is up-to-date with  origin dev             nothing to commit  working tree clean     now local commits are lost  back to the initial cloned state  point 1 above

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You may not necessarily want need to stash your work files in your working directory but instead simply get rid of them completely  The command git clean will do this for you    Some common use cases for doing this would be to remove cruft that has been generated by merges or external tools or remove other files so that you can run a clean build    Keep in mind you will want to be very cautious of this command  since its designed to remove files from your local working directory that are NOT TRACKED  if you suddently change your mind after executing this command  there is no going back to see the content of the files that were removed  An alternative which is safer is to execute   git stash --all   which will remove everything but save it all in a stash  This stash can then later be used    However  if you truly DO want to remove all the files and clean your working directory  you should execute   git clean -f -d  This will remove any files and also any sub-directories that don t have any items as a result of the command  A smart thing to do before executing the git clean -f -d command is to run   git clean -f -d -n   which will show you a preview of what WILL be removed after executing git clean -f -d  So here is a summary of your options from most aggressive to least aggressive    Option 1  Remove all files locally Most aggressive   git clean -f -d     Option 2  Preview the above impact Preview most aggressive   git clean -f -d -n     Option 3  Stash all files  Least aggressive    git stash --all

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DANGER AHEAD   please read the comments  Executing the command proposed in my answer might delete more than you want   to completely remove all files including directories I had to run  git clean -f -d

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Note  You may also want to run   git clean -fd   as  git reset --hard   will not remove untracked files  where as git-clean will remove any files from the tracked root directory that are not under git tracking  WARNING - BE CAREFUL WITH THIS  It is helpful to run a dry-run with git-clean first  to see what it will delete   This is also especially useful when you get the error message    performing this command will cause an un-tracked file to be overwritten    Which can occur when doing several things  one being updating a working copy when you and your friend have both added a new file of the same name  but he s committed it into source control first  and you don t care about deleting your untracked copy   In this situation  doing a dry run will also help show you a list of files that would be overwritten

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Look into git-reflog   It will list all the states it remembers  default is 30 days   and you can simply checkout the one you want   For example     git init  gt   dev null   touch a   git add     git commit -m Add file a   gt   dev null   echo  foo   gt  gt  a   git commit -a -m Append foo to a   gt   dev null   for i in b c d e  do echo  i  gt  gt a  git commit -a -m Append  i to a   done  gt   dev null   git reset --hard HEAD    gt   dev null   cat a foo b c   git reflog 145c322 HEAD  0   HEAD    updating HEAD ae7c2b3 HEAD  1   commit  Append e to a fdf2c5e HEAD  2   commit  Append d to a 145c322 HEAD  3   commit  Append c to a 363e22a HEAD  4   commit  Append b to a fa26c43 HEAD  5   commit  Append foo to a 0a392a5 HEAD  6   commit  initial   Add file a   git reset --hard HEAD  2  HEAD is now at fdf2c5e Append d to a   cat a foo b c d

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Adding another option here  I m referring to the title  Revert local changes   It can also apply to changes that weren t staged for commit  In this case you can use  git restore  lt file gt   To go back to previous state

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This question is more about broader repository reset   revert  but in case if you re interested in reverting individual change - I ve added similar answer in here   https   stackoverflow com a 60890371 2338477  Answers to questions    How to revert individual change with or without change preserving in git history How to return back to old version to restart from same state

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I met a similar problem  The solution is to use git log to look up which version of the local commit is different from the remote   E g  the version is 3c74a11530697214cbcc4b7b98bf7a65952a34ec    Then use git reset --hard 3c74a11530697214cbcc4b7b98bf7a65952a34ec to revert the change

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If you want to revert changes made to your working copy  do this   git checkout     If you want to revert changes made to the index  i e   that you have added   do this  Warning this will reset all of your unpushed commits to master    git reset   If you want to revert a change that you have committed  do this   git revert  lt commit 1 gt   lt commit 2 gt    If you want to remove untracked files  e g   new files  generated files    git clean -f   Or untracked directories  e g   new or automatically generated directories      git clean -fd

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