Why won't “git reset HEAD” undo my uncommitted, unstaged changes?

Question

I\'ve previously been able to undo changes through SourceTree by performing the \"Discard\" function, which under the hood produces this command:

git -c diff.mne         


        

Answer 1

I just got stuck in this situation and the only thing which fixed it was the following:

git log

Find the first commit in the repo and get the hash (in my case started with fdb14f)

Note: This only works because the repo with the issue was on a Linux server while I had a remote repo "origin" on my Windows box that contained the most recent commit which fixed the CRLF issue.

git reset --hard fdb14f
git pull origin master

After trying all kinds of different things this is what finally allowed me to get around the issue. I had fixed the CRLF issue in the most recent commit, but nothing else I tried would allow me to get around these files.