git undo all uncommitted or unsaved changes
command-line, git, git-reset, undo
Solution
This will unstage all files you might have staged with `git add`:
git reset
This will revert all local uncommitted changes (should be executed in repo root):
git checkout .
You can also revert uncommitted changes only to particular file or directory:
git checkout [some_dir|file.txt]
Yet another way to revert all uncommitted changes (longer to type, but works from any subdirectory):
git reset --hard HEAD
This will remove all local untracked files, so only git tracked files remain:
git clean -fdx
WARNING: `-x` will also remove all ignored files, including ones specified by `.gitignore`! You may want to use `-n` for preview of files to be deleted.
To sum it up: executing commands below is basically equivalent to fresh `git clone` from original source (but it does not re-download anything, so is much faster):
git reset
git checkout .
git clean -fdx
Typical usage for this would be in build scripts, when you must make sure that your tree is absolutely clean - does not have any modifications or locally created object files or build artefacts, and you want to make it work very fast and to not re-clone whole repository every single time.
Problem
I'm trying to undo all changes since my last commit. I tried `git reset --hard` and `git reset --hard HEAD` after viewing this post. I responds with head is now at 18c3773... but when I look at my local source all the files are still there. What am I missing?