Hg update -C mercurial command equivalent in git

Question

Suppose I have made changes to several files in a git repository that was for exploratory purposes and now I want to undo all of my changes back to the original state.

If this was mercurial I would simply do

hg up -C

What is the proper way to acheive this in git?

Answer 1

If you just wish to discard changes for just one file you can type:

git checkout -- <file>

(actually "git status" is giving you this hint).

If you want to throw away all local changes:

git checkout -f