Cannot discard nor remove the mysterious file in Sourcetree

Question

I've been working on the project. In the middle of the day, this file had unknowingly popped up on the "Staged files". I couldn't do anything to it.

I checked in the explorer. This file was still there. It's a regular text file.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Here are what I've tried to solve the problem:

• reset the branch - hard
• stash the file
• use terminal
• checkout another branch and come back to the current branch

None of these worked.

Answer 1

This is the solution.

I use git reset on the terminal.

git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/develop

then switched to another branch, then came back to develop again.