I tried to get a former copy of my code by using the git checkout command. Before using this though, I committed the latest version of the code using git commit.
After using git checkout to a previous version, I made changes to the code. Git now informs me that because I’ve made changes I can no longer revert to that most recent version that I had committed.
I don’t care about the changes I made to this code I checked out, I just want to get back to the most recent version of the code. How do I do this?
Using the command git log no longer shows that most recent version before the checkout to a previous version.
You are most certainly in a detached head mode.
That happens when you checkout a commit that is not at the tip of one of your branches (like a tag,
git checkout V1.0).dd http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/checkout-b-detached.svg
You can discard your temporary commits and merges by switching back to an existing branch (e.g.
git checkout master).You can also use
git reset: see What’s the difference between ‘git reset’ and ‘git checkout’?, and also “HEAD and ORIG_HEAD in Git“