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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: gzoller <gzoller@hotmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie:  Restore messed up code from local or remote repository
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:08:39 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112103836.GB20053@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289550163511-5731540.post@n2.nabble.com>

Hi Greg,

gzoller writes:
> git checkout
> git pull -f /path/to/remote/repos
> git fetch -f /path/to/remote/repos
> 
> None of the above did the trick.  The two remote commands reported that
> everything was Already up-to-date! (even though I'd deleted a lot of local
> working files)

Yes, there's really nothing to download. Everything that needs to be
fetched has already been fetched :)

> What am I missing?  How can I restore my previous state from last commit?

See `--hard` switch of `git reset`. Use with extreme caution.

To throw *everything* all your local work away and go back to the
state of the remote repository, switch to `master` branch and do `git
reset --hard origin/master` where `origin` is the name of your remote
and `master` is the name of your remote branch.

To reset to the last commit without looking at the remote, run `git
reset --hard`.

Note: Again, please understand what it's doing first; don't run it
blindly.

-- Ram

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  8:22 Newbie: Restore messed up code from local or remote repository gzoller
2010-11-12 10:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-11-12 12:46 ` Jan Hudec
2010-11-12 14:02   ` Santi Béjar
2010-11-12 16:50     ` gzoller
2010-11-12 16:57   ` Matthieu Moy

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