git undo all working dir changes including new files

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How to delete all changes from working directory including new untracked files  I know that git checkout -f does that  but it doesn t delete new untracked files created since last commit   Does anybody have an idea how to do that

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You can do this in two steps    Revert modified files  git checkout -f Remove untracked files  git clean -fd

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If you want to discard all changes  you can use any of the valid options in an alias in  gitconfig  For instance    alias      discard     f     git add    amp  amp  git stash  amp  amp  git stash drop stash  0      f    Usage  git discard

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git clean -i will first show you the items to be deleted and proceed after your confirmation  I find this useful when dealing with important files that should not be deleted accidentally   See git help clean for more information  including some other useful options

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For all tracked unstaged files use  git checkout --    The   at the end is important  You can replace   with a sub-directory name to clear only a specific sub-directory of your project  The problem is addressed specifically here

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The following works   git add -A   git stash git stash drop stash  0    Please note that this will discard both your unstaged and staged local changes  So you should commit anything you want to keep  before you run these commands   A typical use case  You moved a lot of files or directories around  and then want to get back to the original state   Credits  https   stackoverflow com a 52719 246724

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git reset --hard origin  branchName    It will delete all untracked files

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git reset --hard   removes staged and working directory changes        be very careful with these       you may end up deleting what you don t want to    read comments and manual  git clean -f -d   remove untracked git clean -f -x -d   CAUTION  as above but removes ignored files like config  git clean -fxd      CAUTION  as above  but cleans untracked and ignored files through the entire repo  without     the operation affects only the current directory    To see what will be deleted before-hand  without actually deleting it  use the -n flag  this is basically a test-run   When you are ready to actually delete  then remove the -n flag   git clean -nfd

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Have a look at the git clean command   git-clean - Remove untracked files from the working tree Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control  starting from the current directory  Normally  only files unknown to git are removed  but if the -x option is specified  ignored files are also removed  This can  for example  be useful to remove all build products

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For a specific folder I used   git checkout -- FolderToClean

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Safest method  which I use frequently  git clean -fd  Syntax explanation as per  docs git-clean page   -f  alias  --force   If the Git configuration variable clean requireForce is not set to false  git clean will refuse to delete files or directories unless given -f  -n or -i  Git will refuse to delete directories with  git sub directory or file unless a second -f is given  -d  Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files  If an untracked directory is managed by a different Git repository  it is not removed by default  Use -f option twice if you really want to remove such a directory   As mentioned in the comments  it might be preferable to do a git clean -nd which does a dry run and tells you what would be deleted before actually deleting it  Link to git clean doc page  https   git-scm com docs git-clean

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An alternative solution is to commit the changes  and then get rid of those commits  This does not have an immediate benefit at first  but it opens up the possibility to commit in chunks  and to create a git tag for backup   You can do it on the current branch  like this   git add  -A    git commit -m DISCARD  Temporary local changes  git tag archive local-changes-2015-08-01    optional git revert HEAD git reset HEAD     Or you can do it on detached HEAD   assuming you start on BRANCHNAME branch    git checkout --detach HEAD git add  -A    git commit -m DISCARD  Temporary local changes  git tag archive local-changes-2015-08-01    optional git checkout BRANCHNAME   However  what I usually do is to commit in chunks  then name some or all commits as  DISCARD        Then use interactive rebase to remove the bad commits and keep the good ones   git add -p    Add changes in chunks  git commit -m DISCARD  Some temporary changes for debugging  git add -p    Add more stuff  git commit -m Docblock improvements  git tag archive local-changes-2015-08-01 git rebase -i  commit id     rebase on the commit id before the changes      Remove the commits that say  DISCARD     This is more verbose  but it allows to review exactly which changes you want to discard   The git lol and git lola shortcuts have been very helpful with this workflow

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I thought it was  warning  following will wipe out everything     git reset --hard HEAD   git clean -fd   The reset to undo changes  The clean to remove any untracked files and directories

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This is probably a noob answer  but  I use TortoiseGit for windows and it has a nice feature called REVERT  So what you do to revert your local nonstaged nonpushed changes is    bring up a context menu for the needed folder and select revert  it shows a revert popup where you can select changed files to revert recover  If you also want to delete added files that are not in git yet  click commit  from same context menu  it brings up the Commit popup and shows you the added files  then right click each of them and choose delete  But dont press Commit btn in this popup  as you dont wanna commit  but only see added files and delete them from here

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