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 had .gitattributes with the following content:

* text=auto eol=lf

To overcome the issue, edit .gitattributes to remove this line which relaxes line endings. Then git reset --hard HEAD reverted the files and .gitattributes file.