Found this answer on Stack Overflow very useful, so thought I'd share it here:
If you want to revert changes made to your working copy, do this:
git checkout .If you want to revert changes made to the index (i.e., that you have added), do this:
git resetIf you want to revert a change that you have committed, do this:
git revert ...
Source: How to revert all local changes in a GIT managed project to previous state ?
I'm just starting to think about Git.
By what you've written here there seems to be some unfortunate naming choices:
git revert == svn merge
svn revert == git checkout
Haha, I'm having to battle with svn, git and mercurial! Can imagine how confused I am now.
Here's a good place to start if you're switching from svn to git:
http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
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