How to discard all uncommitted changes?
Example: I have a project that has a few dozen commits, assuming that at some point I decide to discard everything that has not yet been committed via commit , how can I do that?
Note: I want to undo everything until the previous commit. What would be the best way to do this?
Lists all the commits you've ever done:
git log --stat
Will list your last commits, then choose an ID, where you want to go back:
* 518ce00
* ec3be16
* df9b821
* 8db3a02
* 698f520
* 19ccc39
Then just reset to the point you chose:
git reset --hard 19ccc39
But ideally you would work with branches, so you would avoid this.
If you did not git add / git commit , you could simply:
git checkout .
Or delete and clone the project again
I have successfully used only these two commands below when I make a lot of changes in a branch and I want to get rid of them all without committing anything yet .
The first command is to revert all changes to files that were versioned:
git checkout -- .
The second is to delete all files and directories created:
git clean -f -d
To the last command, you can still add -x to also delete files that were created but are being ignored by git (so they do not appear in git status ).