How to revert uncommitted changes including files and folders?

Is there a git command to revert all uncommitted changes in a working tree and index and to also remove newly created files and folders?

Solution 1:

You can run these two commands:

# Revert changes to modified files.
git reset --hard

# Remove all untracked files and directories.
# '-f' is force, '-d' is remove directories.
git clean -fd

Solution 2:

If you want to revert the changes only in current working directory, use

git checkout -- .

And before that, you can list the files that will be reverted without actually making any action, just to check what will happen, with:

git checkout --

Solution 3:

Use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory

git checkout -- app/views/posts/index.html.erb

or

git checkout -- *

removes all changes made to unstaged files in git status eg

modified:    app/controllers/posts.rb
modified:    app/views/posts/index.html.erb

Solution 4:

One non-trivial way is to run these two commands:

1. git stash This will move your changes to the stash, bringing you back to the state of HEAD
2. git stash drop This will delete the latest stash created in the last command.