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GIT: How I can revert changes which I did accidentally from the file ?

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I opened a file and wrote a piece of code.
When I ran $git diff
it is showing the differences what I did.
Can I get back the file (version) which is in remote branch ?
Is there any command ?

posted Mar 5, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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As git diff shows the difference between staged area and working directory, so it means that you changed a file and not staged yet, so you want you file to be according to the last commit, for this either you can use reset/ or checkout command.

git reset HEAD bring the file according to the HEAD is pointing to the latest commit.
git checkout which will bring the latest commit file to your working directory.

answer Mar 6, 2016 by Sachidananda Sahu
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