Rollback uncommitted changes in GitHub Desktop (or Github for Windows)

Question

I\'m using Github Desktop (previously called GitHub for Windows) and I made a bunch of changes to my local files. It became such a mess that I decided I just want to rollback my

Answer 1

GitHub for Windows v3 has made the "super easy" answer above obsolete and, once again, figuring out what to do is just not obvious. This time, select your repository in the leftmost column and then click the "{#} uncommitted changes" link at the top just to the left of "History". This should give you a middle column like the one below. To discard your uncommitted changes you need to right click the "{#} changes" text above the list of list of modified files. (Clicking in the white space around that text does nothing.) Click "Discard all changes" and, once again, presto, all your changes are wiped out and your local files will be back to where they were the last time you made a commit. (By the way, right clicking any one of those listed files will enable you to discard the uncommitted changes for just that file.)