How to discard local changes in Android Studio GUI? - android

I want to discard the local changes I made in an Android Studio project.
I tried to perform a pull, the GUI gives me 5 options, which option should I choose?
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In Android Studio do the following:
-Open the Version Control tool window Alt+9 and switch to the Log tab.
-Select the recent commit and right click on it than select Reset Current Branch to Here.
-A Git Reset popup will open -> select Hard -> click Reset

You originally asked which strategy argument to use with git pull to discard your own work (there is a pending edit that will change the question, if the edit is approved). The answer is: None.
Don't use git pull at all. Run git fetch first:
git fetch origin
This brings over all the new stuff from the other Git you have your Git calling "origin".
Now that you have everything they have, simply stop using what you have been using, and switch to theirs:
git reset --hard origin/master # assuming you're on your "master"
You may also want to use git clean -fdx to remove build artifacts, but that's a separate issue.

In Android studio do the following:
Go to VCS -> Git -> Reset HEAD
Change Reset type to hard

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Android Studio changing code automatically

Something very weird is happening.
I am on the master branch of my repository. After calling git pull I get the latest version of the code on the master branch, everything is ok.
But for some reason, Android Studio, after some seconds, changes the code, so that now, even if I do git pull I get Already up-to-date but if I call git status I see changes not staged in red. How is that possible?
Also, if I click cmd+z I can see for few seconds how the code added by Android Studio goes away, and immediately comes back.
I tried deleting the entire project and cloning again from the repository, and again I get the latest version of the fresh code, but after few seconds Android Studio changes it.
All that happens in a particular file and section of code.
When you make git pull it doesn't reset or throw the changes you have non staged, you have to commit them the only reason you would see a problem with these files were is there was a conflict and git would notify you and tell you you need to commit before the pull.
so if you want to commit these change you need to do:
git add .
git commit
or if you want to throw away these changes you need to do:
git reset --hard HEAD
that last command would let you with the exact same code as in the remote repository.
That's happening because each time you opening a project with Android Studio, it will check for Android Studio project configuration files. When Android Studio did not find any of these files, it will create them. The configuration files will be in the .idea folder. Therefore, you will see a red mark for those unstaged files.

How to revert project back to a previous commit in android studio

I am working on a project in android studio and would like to revert to a previous push. I attempted
VCS => Git => Reset Head (Hard)
but my project in Android Studio is unchanged, likely because I'm doing something wrong. I would like to revert the project in Android Studio to a specific earlier commit that I've pushed and I see on github. I do not care about any changes that I have made since the earlier push.
Additionally, I would like this to be done through the GUI within Android Studio if possible.
Android Studio Instructions: if you want to do this in Android Studio, press alt + 9 (or Command + 9 on Mac) to open the Version Control panel. Switch to the Log tab and right click on a previous commit. Select Checkout Revision.
Command line instructions: Open the command line tool you are using.
Go to the Android app's Git directory (using cd).
Execute git log and find the previous commit you want to revert to.
commit 7c247be6d8975dc88f6cc2631c154786a1f3b79e
Author: John Doe <john#doe.ca>
Date: Fri Jun 11 22:37:35 2015 -0400
Some helpful commit message should be here.
If that is the commit you want to revert to, then execute git checkout 7c247b.
Open the Version Control Panel using alt + 9 and click on Log. This should show a list of commits. Right click on the commit you want to revert to and select Reset Current Branch to Here. This should bring up a list of options to keep or discard changes when reverting. Select Hard to discard any current changes and click Reset.
The icon surrounded by red rectangle in image will do the trick
In android studio 4.0, go to version control -> Log.
Then select the commit you want to revert to.
Choose Reset current branch to here.
You ll see a popup, select Hard and its done.
Android Studio -> Version Control -> Select your commit -> Right panel -> Select you want to be reverted file.
Then you can get the new reverted change, commit -> done.
Android Studio > check bottom toolbar -> click on git -> select log tab -> right on particular commit -> reset current branch to here -> select hard reset
Also if u have already pushed code to server
u need to run
git push -f origin branch_name
MacOS users
Rollback Changes
⌘ Command + ⌥ Option + Z
VCS -> Git -> Rollback...
//or
VCS Local Changes Toolbar -> Rollback...
//or
Commit Changes -> Rollback...
While push is selected branch to undo;
example brach name -> push_will_be_undone
git push -f origin push_will_be_undone
Writing did my job and it worked for me
Right click on folder where you Github folder, press Git Bash Here and type git reset --hard

What does smart merge do in Android Studio?

In Android studio there are options at the bottom right corner to handle branches. In Merge option when I merge another remote or local branch, it shows me options like Force merge and smart merge.
What exactly they do?
When merging with local/remote branches?
its similar to Smart Checkout. Android Studio will stash local changes, check out the selected branch, and then unstash the changes. If a conflict occurs during the unstash operation, you will be prompted to merge the changes.
Smart merge executes the following commands:
git stash save "Uncommitted changes before Update at <MM/DD/YY>, <HH:MM>"
git merge <remote>
git stash pop (if merge successful)
If the merge is unsuccessful and you abort or discard changes, you'll need to run git stash pop yourself to get back your changes.
You can see the exact commands being executed by examining the Version Control context in Android Studio, in the Console tab:

How to reset to any of the previous commit in android studio?

I made some commits to git from android studio. Now I want to reset to one of the committed version. How can I do that within android studio?
At last I have found the solution.
Go to VCS -> Git -> Show History
From Log, right click on the required committed version and select Reset Current Branch to Here.
Select Hard and click on Reset button.
open terminal in android studio :
You can do this by following two commands:
git reset --hard [previous Commit SHA id here]
git push origin [branch Name] -f
It will remove your previous git commit.
If you want to keep your changes you can also use:
git reset --soft [previous Commit SHA id here]
Then it will save your changes.
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Android Studio: Unregistered VCS root detected

Unregistered VCS root detected
The directory /Users/*****/AndroidStudioProjects/Signin/google-services is under Git, but is not registered in the Settings.
Add root Configure Ignore
How to resolve this?
Please help.
Press "add root" when the warning message appears.
This will make idea register the "unregistered vcs root", and you can use the git features of IDEA/Android studio. Nothing bad will happen if you do not press "add root", but I suspect you will get the same warning on each startup of android studio/IDEA.
You are able to ignore that warning if you are not interested in using Android Studio's git integration. Or, you can enable git integration under the VCS | Enable Version Control Integration menu.
VCS stands for "Version Control System", aka "undo on steroids". No programmer should be without it.
IDEA (which Android Studio is based on) sees some signs in your project directory that your project source is set up to use a Version Control System.
In this case, the VCS in use is git. The sign is the presence of a projectdir/.git subdirectory.
That indicates that you either created this project directory by "cloning" this project from a git repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/projectname/reponame.git
Or that you created your own git repo in the project directory, by cd'ing to the projectdir and running the command:
/path/to/projectdir $ git init-db
By clicking "add root" you tell IDEA to add this git repo to IDEA's internal settings for the project, so you can use the IDEA features that support using git. I recommend using it, it won't interfere with your ability to use git from the command line, but some of the IDEA git features are handy.
If you don't know/use git, I highly, highly recommend that you learn it. It will make your life a lot easier, in the long run. As I said, it's like "undo" on steroids.
If you already know how to use git, here are a few of IDEA's git features.
The niftiest feature is that you can select a few lines of code, right-click and select Git/Show History for Selection.
The most useful feature (to me) is Alt-9 aka View/Tool Windows/Version Control.
This brings up the version control window, a pane across the bottom of the
IDEA gui.
By default the Version Control Window just shows "Default" (in bold)
and "Unversioned Files".
Expand "Default" to see the files that changed.
Expand "Unversioned Files" to see any files that need to be added to git.
The color indicates the status, all configurable of course, the default config is that blue indicates changed, green indicates added, etc.
Right-click/Show Diff on a changed file and it gives you a nice visual
diff, sort of reminiscent of Meld's UI, which is one of my favorite,
because it uses these sort of cartoon "word ballon" indicators for
each difference, to illustrate where the difference would be in the
other version.
Also, the side of the visual diff that shows the current file appears
to be a fully functional (or mostly functional) IDEA editing window,
making it easy to fix any gratuitous differences.
Some useful related links:
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.1/file-status-highlights.html?origin=old_help
Also, at the same site see:
Howto/General Guidelines/Version Control with Intellij IDEA/VCS-Specific Procedures/Using Git Integration/Checking Git Project Status
Reference/Version Control Reference/File Status Highlights
I'd include links directly to these but apparently stackoverflow doesn't trust me yet.
You can disable Android Studio git integration and get rid of the annoying warning. Here's how with Android Studio 2.1.1 for the Mac OS X:
Menu -> "Android Studio/Preferences...".
In Preferences window: Click on to open "Plugins"
In the Plugins frame: uncheck "Git
Integration".
Disabling "Git Integration" also disables GitHub, Google Cloud Testing, Google Cloud Tools Core, Google Cloud Tools For Android Studio plugins. (good riddance). By default, Android Studio enables all plugins at install time even though most devs will use only 10% of them.
FIRST STEP: Click in configure link.
SECOND STEP: then select the correct and add
If you see this message whenever you open Android Studio and create a new project, It's because your projects home directory is set as a VCS root. Maybe It was a mistake, set by you unintentionally. That was my case.
To solve it.
Just delete .git directory from projects home directory.
Delete: ../AndroidStudioProjects/.git

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