I have my project on a git repository and so far I'm not finding it terribly useful. I've used git before and think it's great, but this time I'm using a local repo. I figured that there would be some way of restoring files to a previous commit, or even the entire project but I can't find this option?
Is there a way of doing this? Or do I have to create a branch in advance. Because that seems like you have to know in advance that something us going to go wrong.
Also I can't find an option to discard all local changes across my project, effectively reverting to my last commit.
I can't find an option to discard all local changes across my project, effectively reverting to my last commit
git reset --hard HEAD
See git reset: that will reset the working tree and the index to what HEAD is currently referring to.
See also the Git book "Undoing in Git - Reset, Checkout and Revert"
For the first part, see git checkout, but beware of detached HEAD.