How to revert uncommitted changes including files and folders?

Question

Is there a git command to revert all uncommitted changes in a working tree and index and to also remove newly created files and folders?

Answer 1

Use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory

git checkout -- app/views/posts/index.html.erb

or

git checkout -- *

removes all changes made to unstaged files in git status eg

modified:    app/controllers/posts.rb
modified:    app/views/posts/index.html.erb