Question

I’m working on a new branch. Basically I’ve messed my code up and would like to go back to master and start fresh from a new branch.

Would $ git revert get me back to the master?

or should I be doing the following:

$ git branch -D branch-name

I want to get rid all the code and current entire branch that is checked out.

The online documentation is a bit confusing – scared to mess everything up.

Answer 1

To get back to the master branch simply use:

git checkout master

If you also want to blow away uncommitted changes you can follow that with:

git reset --hard

You can remove the unwanted branch using:

git branch -D branch-name