Can't seem to discard changes in Git

Question

After seeing the following from the command line:

# On branch RB_3.0.10
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use \"git add ...\" to update what will b         


        

Answer 1

I think you need to pass -f

From the man page (man git-checkout, GIT-CHECKOUT(1)):

-f, --force
Proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD.
This is used to throw away local changes.

For instance, discard changes on the current branch and switch to a different branch:

git checkout -f master