How can I discard modified files?

Question

This is a Linux 2.6 kernel repository. I git clone it to my local host.

After that. I didn\'t make any change. But when I \"git status\". I found 13 modified files.

Answer 1

this problem was caused, for me, by a non-case-sensitive filesystem (e.g. on Mac OS). You can either create a case-sensitive disk image and mount it and do your git work on there, or use a different OS to do your development.

Answer 2

If you would like to remove all the files and modifications that differ from your origin branch but would like to keep all the ignored files (ex. node_modules, .vscode, .idea etc..) the best choice is to combine these two commands:

 git reset --hard && git clean -f

This will reset all modified files and will clean all the unstaged ones.

Answer 3

A git reset --hard HEAD should solve the problem.

Answer 4

There's another possibility where the issue is filemode-related. In that case you may try git config core.filemode false

More info: How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?

Edit:

Another possibility would be the line endings, try setting git config core.autocrlf true|false|input and see if it makes any difference.

More info: Why should I use core.autocrlf=true in Git?