Question

I have done some stuff to my git repo and I think I am digging the hole deeper.

Right now I just want to be able to get all my current files in the state they were when I last pushed to github. However, I do not have internet connection on that machine. So what do I do? I do have git internally and git log shows that the commit I want starts with
c3e535f8cb.....

I just want to revert my whole directory to that commit. is this doable with git?

right now I have nothing to commit

git status shows

# on branch master
# your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 3 commits
#  nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Answer 1

Try the following:

git reset --hard c3e535f8cb

Note: you will lose changes in your repo, index and working directory since c3e535f8cb. Look into other options --soft --mixed if needed. but since you don’t seem to have anything to commit ( cleand wd and index ), you can do the above. But you will lose commits. Use git reflog to get them back and then again use git reset to “reset” to those commits.