Git checkout - switching back to HEAD
I've been doing my project while at some point I discovered that one thing stopped working. I needed to look up the state of my code when it was working correctly, so I've decided to use git checkout (because I wanted to check-something-out). And so I've done
git checkout SHA
couple times while going back to point from which I can't go to HEAD, the output is following:
git checkout SHA-HEAD
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
[list of files]
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
I am pretty much sure I have NOT changed anything. The command
git checkout master
gives the same output.
Is there a way to go back to HEAD?
What is the safe way of "jumping over" history commits?
git clean -f will clean all the untracked files. Then checkout to master
error: ... message means that you—or something you did, perhaps indirectly— did change the files. You can tell Git to discard or overwrite these changes, or use git status and/or git diff to see what, precisely, changed. It could be as simple as some kind of line-ending modification, or some command that runs in the background that wrote to a file. (Aside: "go back to HEAD" makes no sense in Git, as you're always on HEAD: HEAD literally means "current commit". You can change HEAD, after which you're still on HEAD, just a different HEAD. This is ... difficult to phrase. :-) )
git reset --hard HEAD means "reset the index and work-tree to match HEAD", i.e., throw away changes. Or: git checkout -f master means "change HEAD to be master, even if that means throwing away some work": -f means "force".
You can stash (save the changes in temporary box) then, back to master branch HEAD.
$ git add .
$ git stash
$ git checkout master
Jump Over Commits Back and Forth:
Go to a specific commit-sha. $ git checkout
If you have uncommitted changes here then, you can checkout to a new branch | Add | Commit | Push the current branch to the remote. # checkout a new branch, add, commit, push
$ git checkout -b
If you have changes in the specific commit and don't want to keep the changes, you can do stash or reset then checkout to master (or, any other branch). # stash $ git add -A $ git stash $ git checkout master # reset $ git reset --hard HEAD $ git checkout master
After checking out a specific commit if you have no uncommitted change(s) then, just back to master or other branch. $ git status # see the changes $ git checkout master # or, shortcut $ git checkout - # back to the previous state
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add,commit, andpushthe branch toorigin. Your solution worked.git checkout master=> "error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git" butgit checkout -is fine.