inanzzz | Undo changes to all unstaged files with git checkout -- .

You have a lot of files to be indexed/staged with git add and then committed afterwards however, you want to avoid all the files by also reverting the changes to them. To do that git checkout -- . is used. For more information, click git checkout link.

Check the current status

inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git status
On branch my-feature-branch
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

	modified:   file_two.txt

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   file_one.txt
	modified:   file_two.txt

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

	file_seven.txt
	file_six.txt

Remove all tracked files

As we can see "file_one.txt" and "file_two.txt" have been removed.

inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git checkout -- .
inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git status
On branch my-feature-branch
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

	modified:   file_two.txt

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

	file_seven.txt
	file_six.txt