Suppose I have some changes in my working directory and then I stage all of these changes. Let's call this state-1.

Next, I make some more changes to my working directory. Now, how do return to state-1? Is there a standard/simple command to do this?

This question is very similar but no standard/definite answer on how to actually do it. The closest thing I have found is:

git restore .

But this command is still experimental, and its behavior may change(source). So what's the right way to do this?

CodePudding user response：

Note that, although git restore is still flagged as "experimental", it is meant to stay around, and there are big chances that git restore . will keep doing the same thing in future versions.

If you want to keep a trace of your modified files, you can use git stash -k : this will save the initial content of your worktree in the stash, and then return your worktree to its index state.

If you really don't care about these changes : you can simply run git checkout ., which does the exact same thing as git restore ..