How can I restore the commit init from git?

Question

I have a folder, which I use "git init", then, I use "git add ." to add all the files in to git. After that, I use a "git commit -m "initial setup" ". Now, I doing something, that I did wrong, I want to back to the status to "git commit -m "initial setup", what can I do? thank you.

I may explain it in this way....

My Files: ABC
---> git add .

My Files: ABC
---> git commit -m "initial setup"

My Files: CDE
--->

I want to roll back to "My Files: ABC"

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to remove the .git folder that keeps the repository state, then do git init and git add again.

Update: To roll back changes to the working copy files, just do git checkout, which will get the latest committed version from the repository.

Answer 2

As I understand it: you started out with the folder, which had files A,B,C in it. In this folder you ran the commands

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'initial setup'

Then you made changes to files A,B,C, and now you want to undo those changes? In that case, just run

git checkout *

or I think this works too:

git checkout .

and it will undo any uncommitted changes you've made to the files git is tracking.

Answer 3

Another way:

1. Get the sha of the commit that you want to restore to (an easy way is to run git log --oneline at the command line which will give you the short sha and the first line of the commit message).
2. with this sha value run git reset --hard