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

git revert git-checkout
Jacques René Mesrine picture Jacques René Mesrine · Jul 18, 2009 · Viewed 1.6M times · Source

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

Answer

1800 INFORMATION picture 1800 INFORMATION · Jul 18, 2009

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 <commit 1> <commit 2>

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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