How do I discard unstaged changes in Git?
For all unstaged files in current working directory use:
git checkout -- .For a specific file use:
git checkout -- path/to/file/to/revert-- here to remove ambiguity (this is known as argument disambiguation).
For Git 2.23 onwards, one may want to use the more specific
git restore .resp.
git restore path/to/file/to/revertthat together with git switch replaces the overloaded git checkout (see here), and thus removes the argument disambiguation.
Another quicker way is:
git stash save --keep-index --include-untrackedYou don't need to include --include-untracked if you don't want to be thorough about it.
After that, you can drop that stash with a git stash drop command if you like.
It seems like the complete solution is:
git clean -dfgit checkout -- .git clean removes all untracked files (warning: while it won't delete ignored files mentioned directly in .gitignore, it may delete ignored files residing in folders) and git checkout clears all unstaged changes.