git-reset

This question already has an answer here: How do I undo the most recent local commits in Git? 80 answers How can I uncommit my last commit in git? Is it git reset --hard HEAD or git reset --hard HEAD^ ? Cascabel If you aren't totally sure what you mean by "uncommit" and don't know if you want to use git reset , please see " Revert to a previous Git commit ". If you're trying to understand git reset better, please see " Can you explain what "git reset" does in plain English? ". If you know you want to use git reset , it still depends what you mean by "uncommit". If all you want to do is undo

I'm trying to learn how to use Git effectively and I'm wondering how I should (good practice/bad practice?) solve the following case: Say I have the following chain of commits in master: Initial commit Commit 1 Commit 2 Commit 3 Then I realize that what's done in the last two commits is completely wrong and I need to start from Commit 1 again. Questions: How should I do that? Can I move Commit 2 and 3 to a separate branch to keep for future reference (say they weren't that bad after all) and continue working from Commit 1 on master? VonC git branch tmp # mark the current commit with a tmp

While reset and checkout have different usages most of the time, I can't see what difference there is between these two. There probably is one or nobody would have bothered adding a --hard option to do something the basic checkout can do. Maybe there is a difference is the way you will see the history? Cascabel This answer is mostly quoted from my answer to a previous question: git reset in plain english . The two are very different. They result in the same state for your index and work tree, but the resulting history and current branch aren't the same. Suppose your history looks like this,

I'd been working on something, and decided it was completely screwed...after having committed some of it. So I tried the following sequence: git reset --hard git rebase origin git fetch git pull git checkout At which point I got the message Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 2 commits. I want to discard my local commits , without having to wipe out my local directory and redownload everything. How can I accomplish that? mipadi git reset --hard origin/master will remove all commits not in origin/master where origin is the repo name and master is the name of the branch. slebetman As an

I reset my local master to a commit by this command: git reset --hard e3f1e37 when I enter $ git status command, terminal says: # On branch master # Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 7 commits, and can be fast-forwarded. # (use "git pull" to update your local branch) # nothing to commit, working directory clean Since I want to reset origin/header as well, I checkout to origin/master: $ git checkout origin/master Note: checking out 'origin/master'. You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in

In one of my development branches, I made some changes to my codebase. Before I was able to complete the features I was working on, I had to switch my current branch to master to demo some features. But just using a "git checkout master" preserved the changes I also made in my development branch, thus breaking some of the functionality in master. So what I did was commit the changes on my development branch with a commit message "temporary commit" and then checkout master for the demo. Now that I'm done with the demo and back to work on my development branch, I would like to remove the

let's say yesterday I did some changes on my master branch, and I forgot to add, commit them. and in the morning i did git reset --hard is it possible to restore deleted files in this situation ? Some better IDEs keep track of your files as a local history. If you removed files externally (say, git reset ) you should be able to click in your IDE on parent directory and choose "Compare with local history". I used this feature successfully in PHPStorm IDE when my untracked files got wiped out by some utility... No................... It isn't. Tim git reset --hard is a very dangerous command, so

UPDATE : This will work more intuitively as of Git 1.8.3, see my own answer . Imagine the following use case: I want to get rid of all changes in a specific subdirectory of my Git working tree, leaving all other subdirectories intact. I can do git checkout . , but git checkout . adds directories excluded by sparse checkout There is git reset --hard , but it won't let me do it for a subdirectory: > git reset --hard . fatal: Cannot do hard reset with paths. Again: Why git can't do hard/soft resets by path? I can reverse-patch the current state using git diff subdir | patch -p1 -R , but this is a