Re: I messed up my own git tree and I don't know how to fix it.

[Adrian H <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com>]

If I understand the commands you are using correctly, you are
referencing the remote repo.  You need to reference the local repo.
So try using the following commands:

git checkout -- alecthomas/gometalinter
git checkout -- kisielk/errcheck
git checkout -- rogpeppe/godef

Or if those are the only files that have been modified, then you can
use the following single command:

git reset --hard

and that will reset all files that have not been staged.

HTH


A


On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:22 PM rob <drrob100@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have my own code at a github repository, using Go.  Part of using Go
> libraries not part of the official Go people is by using a system they
> call go get.  This essentially uses git to, well, go get source code.
> Mine are at github.com and golang.org.  My computer runs LinuxMint 19.1.
>
> I used goland IDE from jetbrains to run go fmt on my entire project.
> Now I am getting this message that I cannot get rid of:
>
> changes not staged for commit:
>
>    modified: github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter (modified content)
>
>    modified: github.com/kisielk/errcheck (modified content)
>
>    modified: github.com/rogpeppe/godef (modified content)
>
>
> I do not want any changes to central repos to be tracked or committed,
> but I cannot undo this.  I tried, for example,
>
> git checkout -- github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
>
> I don't get an error message but it does not do anything.  The file is
> not changes, and git status show me the same information, ie, these
> files have changes not staged for commit.
>
> I do not know how to restore these files to the state they were in in
> the repo, and to have my own git tree not to flag this as an unstaged
> alteration.  Running rm -rfv on the repos on my computer, then running
> go get to restore them does not change git status. It still sahs changes
> not stated for commit: modified.
>
> This happens for the above 3 tree items.
>
> How do I restore these to the github remote repository condition and not
> have my own git tree mark these as changed?
>
> --rob solomon
>


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