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 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 2

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

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

Use:

git reset HEAD filepath

For example:

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

Answer 6

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.