Git checkout HEAD- switching back to HEAD
I've been doing my project while at some point I discovered that one thing stopped working. I needed to look up the state of my code when it was working correctly, so I've decided to use git checkout (because I wanted to check-something-out). And so I've done
git checkout SHAa couple of times while going back to the point from which I can't go to HEAD, the output is the following:
git checkout SHA-HEAD
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
[list of files]
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
I am pretty much sure I have NOT changed anything. The command
git checkout mastergives the same output.
Is there a way to go back to HEAD?
What is the safe way of "jumping over" history commits?
To solve git return to head, you could stash the changes and then come back to master branch using:
git add .
git stash
git checkout masterif you need to go to a specific commit then use:
git checkout If you have uncommitted changes here then,
# checkout a new branch, add, commit, push
git checkout -b
git add .
git commit -m 'Changes in the commit'
git push origin HEAD # push the current branch to remote
git checkout master # back to master branch now
If you don't want to keep the changes in a specific commit then you could do:
# stash git add -A
git stash
git checkout master
# reset
git reset --hard HEAD
git checkout master