git reset –hard HEAD leaves untracked files behind

by

You have to use git clean -f -d to get rid of untracked files and directories in your working copy.
You can add -x to also remove ignored files, more info on that in this excellent SO answer.

If you need to reset an entire repository with submodules to the state on master, run this script:

git fetch origin master
git checkout --force -B master origin/master
git reset --hard
git clean -fdx
git submodule update --init --recursive --force
git submodule foreach git fetch
git submodule foreach git checkout --force -B master origin/master
git submodule foreach git reset --hard
git submodule foreach git clean -fdx

More Related Contents:

  1. New to GitHub, how to run the commands on Windows?
  2. Definition of “downstream” and “upstream”
  3. How to find the nearest parent of a Git branch
  4. Re-doing a reverted merge in Git
  5. How to find/identify large commits in git history?
  6. How to squash all git commits into one?
  7. How to find a deleted file in the project commit history?
  8. Cleaning up old remote git branches
  9. Git: Could not resolve host github.com error while cloning remote repository in git
  10. Combining multiple commits before pushing in Git [duplicate]
  11. Git: ignore some files during a merge (keep some files restricted to one branch)
  12. How do I revert a merge commit that has already been pushed to remote?
  13. How do I remove local (untracked) files from the current Git working tree?
  14. What is the git clone –filter option’s syntax?
  15. Should composer.lock be committed to version control?
  16. How to clone a specific Git tag
  17. Rollback a Git merge
  18. What is the difference between git push origin and git push origin master
  19. When I do “git push”, what do the statistics mean? (Total, delta, etc.)
  20. Checkout old commit and make it a new commit [duplicate]
  21. Adding git branch on the Bash command prompt
  22. Unable to authenticate with Git Bash to Visual Studio Team Services
  23. git clone hangs forever on github
  24. how to log out of one Github account and use another account?
  25. git fails to detect renaming
  26. git push error: src refspec main does not match any on linux
  27. Get commit message in Git hook
  28. How can I reduce the ever-increasing time to push a subtree?
  29. git status returns fatal: Not a git repository but .git exists and HEAD has proper permissions
  30. Delete all files and history from remote Git repo without deleting repo itself

Leave a Comment