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

> 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
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> 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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