git reset ---hard returns error

Question

I am git newbie. When I hope to reset hard to discard all local modification, git return merge conflict

HEAD is now at 3291a25 will create merge conflict 1

my operation:

1. about half a month I commit as below

   git commit -am "will create merge conflict 1"
   

2. today I hope to reset --hard to this ref

   yaoyangyong@ubuntulucky:~/repos01$ git reset --hard HEAD
   HEAD is now at 3291a25 will create merge confict 1
   

3. The output confuse me. In fact, it is just my old comment.

Answer 1

git is simply telling you the result of the reset.

HEAD(your current position) is now at 3291a25(the commit you wanted to reset to) "will create merge confict 1"(the message of the commit).

You should pass a commit which you want to reset to rather than just say HEAD. Also, if you want to abort a half completed merge, use git merge --abort (or git reset --merge in older versions of git).