git checkout is not removing files that it should

Question

Using a public repo, I want to get my master branch back to a certain commit from the past. I have reviewed the options and the best thing for me looks to be a simple checkout t

Answer 1

Git checkout will not remove files added since a previous commit. To do this I would need git revert.

However I find git checkout thehash . a lot easier to use, and its not so hard to see which files have been added since that hash:

git diff --name-status HEAD thehash