reverting uncommeted files to the “original” sate (the state that is the last commited)

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Sometimes we make attempts that go nowhere or simply edit the wrong file. When this happens it is nice to just “undo” what I did and revert the file back to the last good state (I assume the state I have gotten/pushed to is good).

I can revert the file to the latest version

git checkout -- the.file

Or I can revert it to the latest version from the HEAD revision

git checkout HEAD the.file

Or I could do it for the entire working tree

get reset --hard HEAD