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

Git 2.23 introduced git restore command to restore working tree files.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-restore

To restore all files in the current directory

git restore .

If you want to restore all C source files to match the version in the index, you can do

git restore '*.c'