Overwrite local changes in Git

Question

I am a newbie in Git and it is seems a bit challenging. I have made changes in a local directory of my repository. These changes are the deletion of a file and the modification of several. How can I go back to the initial state before this changes happen?(This is the state when the repository was cloned)

Answer 1

You can simply use...

git checkout .

...which will throw away all dirty changes.

Answer 2

You can clear all local changes by doing this.

git reset --hard

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-reset.html

Note that it is case-sensitive.