How to give up unstaged changes

Question

I made some changes on my local machine and I don't want to keep them.

When I perform a pull to get the recent changes from the server I get a message saying that I have unstaged changes and I must commit or stash them.

But I don't want to do it. I want to cancel them. How to do this?

Possible duplicate of [git: undo all working dir changes including new files](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1090309/git-undo-all-working-dir-changes-including-new-files) — phd, Jul 31 '17 at 17:40

Arount · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-31T14:38:43.747

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git checkout . to undo all non-commited changes on tracked files.

git clean -f to remove non-commited files.

PS: . in git checkout . is shell wildcard that means "all files within current directories and subdirectories". You can use any wildcard or path (git checkout path/ or git checkout ./*.py)

edited Jul 31 '17 at 14:38

answered Jul 31 '17 at 14:36

Arount

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.. or you can replace '.' with the name of the thing you want to revert so you can preserve other changes. – Dale Wilson Jul 31 '17 at 14:38
@DaleWilson fixed – Arount Jul 31 '17 at 14:41

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '17 at 14:45

git reset --hard

Will revert your repository to a clean state.

git reset <commit> Will change the index to point at that commit, by default it's HEAD, so your most recent commit.

The --hard flag will also revert any files to what they were at that commit.

How to give up unstaged changes

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