I have presented git restore (which is still marked as “experimental”) in “How to reset all files from working directory but not from staging area?”, with the recent Git 2.23 (August 2019). It helps separate git checkout into two commands: one for files (git restore), which can cover git reset cases. one for branches (git … Read more
They do two different things . Let say , you did GIT PULL and then started editing some files and probably have added and commited those changes to the be pushed … and then for some reason you decided to just discard all the changes that have been made to the given files and go … Read more
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 … Read more
One way to achieve this is through git reset. While on branch B execute git reset –hard A Thereafter, branch B points to the head-commit of A. The –hard option resets the index and working tree so that all tracked files are reset to the version in branch A. The old HEAD commit-ID of A … Read more
According to https://discuss.atom.io/t/auto-reload-changed-files/8451/6, FileWatcher is an Atom package which will do what you want.
In $ git reflog you should find some of your commits. Once you find the latest commit that you want to move to you should reset back to your commit id $ git reset _Your_Hash_ , as $ git reset –soft just reset the files and not the index or working tree.
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, with the master branch currently … Read more
git branch tmp # mark the current commit with a tmp branch git reset –hard Commit1 # revert to Commit1 The SO answer “What’s the difference between ‘git reset’ and ‘git checkout’ in git?” is quite instructive for that kind of operation A git reset –hard HEAD~2 would do the same thing (without needing to … Read more
In order to do it locally, you can do the following commands to go to master and move it to the old commit. git checkout master git reset –hard <old_commit_id> If you then want to push it to the remote, you need to use the -f option. git push -f origin master
git rm –cached <file> will completely remove the file’s contents from the index. This means that on commit the file will be removed from the HEAD commit. (If the file was only added to the index and not yet tracked this is a “no-op”.) git reset — <file> resets the contents of the file in … Read more