I made changes to a lot of files but didn't yet do a commit. How can I back out of all the changes?

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Here's what gitstatus shows me:

MacBook:Ja.git alan$ git status
On branch alan-1
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/alan-1'.

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:   Ja/Views/DictionaryTab/DictionaryTabPage.xaml.cs
    modified:   Ja/Views/HomeTab/HomeTabPage.xaml
    modified:   Ja/Views/HomeTab/HomeTabPage.xaml.cs
    modified:   Ja/Views/MainPage.xaml.cs
    modified:   Ja/Views/SettingsTab/SettingsTabPage.xaml.cs
    modified:   Ja/Views/SettingsTab/Subscriptions.cs

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
MacBook:Ja.git alan$

Would appreciate advice as it's important I just go back to the point before I changed these files.

git reset --hard or git stash (in case you need to preserve those modified files) — Mebin Joe, Feb 26 '19 at 10:56
Nope, that would revert changes made in the file, that are not yet commited. As it says in the console output. — Croolman, Feb 26 '19 at 11:01
Sounds like git reset --hard might be the best solution here. — Alan2, Feb 26 '19 at 11:02
Yes, I would like to discard all my changes and make it look like it looked an hour ago before I started changing the files. — Alan2, Feb 26 '19 at 11:02
Possible duplicate of [git undo all uncommitted or unsaved changes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14075581/git-undo-all-uncommitted-or-unsaved-changes) — phd, Feb 26 '19 at 15:51
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit%5D+undo+local+changes — phd, Feb 26 '19 at 15:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '19 at 10:58

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git checkout --name_of_file allows you to recover original versioon

answered Feb 26 '19 at 10:58

nissim abehcera

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Is there a way to do that for all of the files at once or maybe better can I revert to the last commit locally? – Alan2 Feb 26 '19 at 11:01

I made changes to a lot of files but didn't yet do a commit. How can I back out of all the changes?

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