Discard all uncommitted changes

Resets the index and working tree to the last commit, permanently losing every staged and unstaged change to tracked files.

Destructive: this command can permanently delete data. Check every value before running it.

git reset --hard

Tool

git

Category

Git & CI

Tags

• undo

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Adapted from tldr-pages (common/git-reset.md), licensed under CC BY 4.0.