Throw away local commits in Git

Question

Due to some bad cherry-picking, my local Git repository is currently five commits ahead of the origin, and not in a good state. I want to get rid of all these commits and st

Answer 1

Use any number of times, to revert back to the last commit without deleting any files that you have recently created.

git reset --soft HEAD~1

Then use

git reset HEAD 

to unstage, or untrack.