git checkout all the files

Question

How can I get rid of all the changes in all the files of my repository   Say I am in a branch and I did some changes  git status returns a set of files in the  Changes not staged for commit  and I notice I would like to get rid of all of these changes in all the files  How can I do this with a single command   I know I can do the following to checkout just one file   git checkout --  lt file gt    I noticed that git checkout -- alone returns the list of all uncommited files  However  I cannot find a way to checkout all of them  something like git checkout --all   I checked man git checkout and could not find anything  Also I saw Git  Checkout all files except one and tried git checkout   and did not work either   Would I have to do it programmatically  by looping through the git checkout -- output

User · Answer

If you are in base directory location of your tracked files then git checkout   will works otherwise it won t work

User · Answer

Other way which I found useful is   git checkout  lt wildcard gt     Example   git checkout   html   More generally   git checkout  lt branch gt   lt filename wildcard gt

User · Answer

If you are at the root of your working directory  you can do git checkout --   to check-out all files in the current HEAD and replace your local files   You can also do git reset --hard to reset your working directory and replace all changes  including the index

User · Answer

If you want to checkout all the files  anywhere  git checkout --   git rev-parse --show-toplevel

[git] git checkout all the files

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