How to discard all changes made to a branch?

I'm working in a branch (i.e. design) and I've made a number of changes, but I need to discard them all and reset it to match the repository version. I thought git checkout design would do it, but it just tells me I'm already in branch design and that I have 3 modified files.

How would I discard those changes and get the branch as it stands now on the remote server?

Solution 1:

Note: You CANNOT UNDO this.

Try git checkout -f this will discard any local changes which are not committed in ALL branches and master.

Solution 2:

git reset --hard can help you if you want to throw away everything since your last commit

Solution 3:

git diff master > branch.diff
git apply --reverse branch.diff

Solution 4:

If you don't want any changes in design and definitely want it to just match a remote's branch, you can also just delete the branch and recreate it:

# Switch to some branch other than design
$ git br -D design
$ git co -b design origin/design            # Will set up design to track origin's design branch