How can I revert my last changes with git?

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I messed up badly my code and I want to revert it to the last commit.

I'm doing git status and I see that I changed a lot of files. I don't want to see them at all. So I did git log and found out the hash of last commit.

I used this hash in command: git fetch origin this_hash and got the message:

Mig-macbook-air:ios M$ git fetch origin this_hash
From https://github.com/linkto/myrepo
 * branch            this_hash -> FETCH_HEAD

but then when I do git status I still see broken files, also I see them in my IDE. I want to completely get rid of those changes, how can I do it?

I didn't do push on the last commit; I just created a branch and did a commit.

Did you read How do you discard unstaged changes in Git? and How do you undo the last commit? or Revert Git repo to a previous commit . If yes, why do these solutions not work for you? If no, why didn't you search first? — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Feb 14, 2016 at 0:53
Possible duplicate of git: undo all working dir changes including new files — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Feb 14, 2016 at 0:56

David Deutsch · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-14 00:54:00Z

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If you see all the files when running git status, that means you have a lot of local changes that are not committed. If you are sure you want to get rid of those changes, run git reset --hard head.

answered Feb 14, 2016 at 0:54

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SLaks · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-14 00:53:33Z

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git fetch just fetches more commits from a remote; it doesn't touch the working directory.

You want git checkout <commit-reference>, which will check out that version into the working directory.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:50:35Z

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You have several options to do it:

Read here all about the several ways how to do it:
How to move HEAD back to a previous location? (Detached head)

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