Careful: git reset –hard WILL DELETE YOUR WORKING DIRECTORY CHANGES. Be sure to stash any local changes you want to keep before running this command. Assuming you are sitting on that commit, then this command will wack it… git reset –hard HEAD~1 The HEAD~1 means the commit before head. Or, you could look at the … Read more
First, make a full backup of your Git repository! When you git add a file, git will create a blob out of this file’s content and add it to its object database (.git/objects/??/*). Let’s look at your commands, one by one: I added all files using git add . $ git add . This will … Read more
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
These three commands have entirely different purposes. They are not even remotely similar. git revert This command creates a new commit that undoes the changes from a previous commit. This command adds new history to the project (it doesn’t modify existing history). git checkout This command checks-out content from the repository and puts it in … Read more
First, it’s always worth noting that git reset –hard is a potentially dangerous command, since it throws away all your uncommitted changes. For safety, you should always check that the output of git status is clean (that is, empty) before using it. Initially you say the following: So I know that Git tracks changes I … Read more
Getting back in synch after a pushed rebase is really not that complicated in most cases. git checkout foo git branch old-foo origin/foo # BEFORE fetching!! git fetch git rebase –onto origin/foo old-foo foo git branch -D old-foo Ie. first you set up a bookmark for where the remote branch originally was, then you use … Read more
Identify the hash of the commit, using git log, then use git revert <commit> to create a new commit that removes these changes. In a way, git revert is the converse of git cherry-pick — the latter applies the patch to a branch that’s missing it, the former removes it from a branch that has … Read more
git reset is specifically about updating the index, moving the HEAD. git checkout is about updating the working tree (to the index or the specified tree). It will update the HEAD only if you checkout a branch (if not, you end up with a detached HEAD). (actually, with Git 2.23 Q3 2019, this will be … Read more
You should be able to recover any files back that you added to the index (e.g, as in your situation, with git add .) although it might be a bit of work. In order to add a file to the index, git adds it to the object database, which means it can be recovered so … Read more
Pat Notz is correct. You can get the commit back so long as it’s been within a few days. git only garbage collects after about a month or so unless you explicitly tell it to remove newer blobs. $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ $ echo “testing reset” > file1 $ git … Read more