How to revert uncommitted changes including files and folders?

Question

Is there a git command to revert all uncommitted changes in a working tree and index and to also remove newly created files and folders?

Answer 1

You can run these two commands:

# Revert changes to modified files.
git reset --hard

# Remove all untracked files and directories. (`-f` is `force`, `-d` is `remove directories`)
git clean -fd

Answer 2

If you want to revert the changes only in current working directory, use

git checkout -- .

And before that, you can list the files that will be reverted without actually making any action, just to check what will happen, with:

git checkout --

Answer 3

Use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory

git checkout -- app/views/posts/index.html.erb

or

git checkout -- *

removes all changes made to unstaged files in git status eg

modified:    app/controllers/posts.rb
modified:    app/views/posts/index.html.erb

Answer 4

One non-trivial way is to run these two commands:

1. git stash This will move your changes to the stash, bringing you back to the state of HEAD
2. git stash drop This will delete the latest stash created in the last command.

Answer 5

git clean -fd

didn't help, new files remained. What I did is totally deleting all the working tree and then

git reset --hard

See "How do I clear my local working directory in git?" for advice to add the -x option to clean:

git clean -fdx

Note -x flag will remove all files ignored by Git so be careful (see discussion in the answer I refer to).

Answer 6

I think you can use the following command: git reset --hard

Answer 7

Please note that there might still be files that won't seem to disappear - they might be unedited, but git might have marked them as being edited because of CRLF / LF changes. See if you've made some changes in .gitattributes recently.

In my case I've added CRLF settings into the .gitattributes file and all the files remained in the "modified files" list because of this. Changing the .gitattributes settings made them disappear.

Answer 8

If you have an uncommitted change (its only in your working copy) that you wish to revert to the copy in your latest commit, do the following:

git checkout filename

Answer 9

You can just use following git command which can revert back all the uncommitted changes made in your repository:

git checkout .

Example:

ABC@ABC-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/pod_admin (master)
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   application/controllers/Drivers.php
        modified:   application/views/drivers/add.php
        modified:   application/views/drivers/load_driver_info.php
        modified:   uploads/drivers/drivers.xlsx

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

ABC@ABC-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/pod_admin (master)
$ git checkout .

ABC@ABC-PC MINGW64 /c/xampp/htdocs/pod_admin (master)
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

Answer 10

Git 2.23 introduced git restore command to restore working tree files.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-restore

To restore all files in the current directory

git restore .

If you want to restore all C source files to match the version in the index, you can do

git restore '*.c'

Answer 11

A safe and long way:

1. git branch todelete
2. git checkout todelete
3. git add .
4. git commit -m "I did a bad thing, sorry"
5. git checkout develop
6. git branch -D todelete

Answer 12

I usually use this way that works well:

mv fold/file /tmp
git checkout fold/file

Answer 13

Use:

git reset HEAD filepath

For example:

git reset HEAD om211/src/META-INF/persistence.xml