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Water Cooler v2
Water Cooler v2

Reputation: 33880

Undo changes made to files

I have the master branch of my repository checked out. It has the following 4 files.

  1. One.txt
  2. Two.txt
  3. Three.txt
  4. Four.txt

While reading each of these files, I ended up making small but unintentional changes to Two.txt and Four.txt. These changes are of the nature of adding line breaks or spaces or removing some of them. It wouldn't hurt to check them in but I'd rather not.

I am still in the master branch and I'd like to undo the changes I made to these two files.

When I do:

$ git status

It reads:

Changes not staged for commit.

Two.txt

Four.txt

I understand that unless I git add them, the changes to these files will be un-tracked and hence will not be considered for commits.

But I'd still like to rollback changes I made to these files and get the real version that I downloaded.

I did:

$ git checkout

But that didn't make the red go away.

Then I did:

$ git pull

So it would fetch and merge from the remote master into my local master but that didn't overwrite the changes I made to Two.txt and Four.txt.

How do I overwrite the changes I made to Two.txt and Four.txt with the original content that the remote repo's master had?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (2)

smarber
smarber

Reputation: 5084

To undo changes either you use checkout

git checkout -- Two.txt Four.txt

Or if your workspace is clean and doesn't contain any new changes that you don't want to loose, in this case you can use reset --hard that will force the commit you tell it

# I want the version of HEAD
git reset --hard HEAD

Be careful, this will apply the version of HEAD to all the files of your project

Another helpful command stash

 # To move changes from the workspace
 git stash
 # Delete that stash
 git stash pop

Upvotes: 1

hspandher
hspandher

Reputation: 16763

If you want to reset all the changes you made

 git checkout -f

In case you want to checkout only unstaged changes instead

git checkout -- .

Upvotes: 2

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