Undo everything and return to last commit

Question

Can you tell me how i can undo every change i have made since my last commit, delete anything newer and return to my last commit?

Neither git checkout df60bb or git reset HEAD --hard worked . At least one file (RoR migration file) which wasnt part of the last commit remains after these two commands

Thanks

Possible duplicate of [How to revert Git repository to a previous commit?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114095/how-to-revert-git-repository-to-a-previous-commit) — André Dion, Aug 22 '16 at 21:15
Possible duplicate of [How do you discard unstaged changes in Git?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/52704/how-do-you-discard-unstaged-changes-in-git) — Functino, Aug 22 '16 at 23:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '16 at 18:13

First, go back to the root directory of your project. Then, do

git reset HEAD .
git checkout -- .

What this will do is unstage any changes that are currently staged, and then undo any unstaged changes to tracked files. To delete untracked files, do:

rm $(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard)

Which will find all the files and then shell-expand them for deletion.

It should also be noted that, if you have files that are being generated, it's usually a good idea to add them to your .gitignore file so you don't have to constantly be deleting them.

Undo everything and return to last commit

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