If I understand the commands you are using correctly, you are referencing the remote repo. You need to reference the local repo. So try using the following commands: git checkout -- alecthomas/gometalinter git checkout -- kisielk/errcheck git checkout -- rogpeppe/godef Or if those are the only files that have been modified, then you can use the following single command: git reset --hard and that will reset all files that have not been staged. HTH A On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:22 PM rob <drrob100@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have my own code at a github repository, using Go. Part of using Go > libraries not part of the official Go people is by using a system they > call go get. This essentially uses git to, well, go get source code. > Mine are at github.com and golang.org. My computer runs LinuxMint 19.1. > > I used goland IDE from jetbrains to run go fmt on my entire project. > Now I am getting this message that I cannot get rid of: > > changes not staged for commit: > > modified: github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter (modified content) > > modified: github.com/kisielk/errcheck (modified content) > > modified: github.com/rogpeppe/godef (modified content) > > > I do not want any changes to central repos to be tracked or committed, > but I cannot undo this. I tried, for example, > > git checkout -- github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter > > I don't get an error message but it does not do anything. The file is > not changes, and git status show me the same information, ie, these > files have changes not staged for commit. > > I do not know how to restore these files to the state they were in in > the repo, and to have my own git tree not to flag this as an unstaged > alteration. Running rm -rfv on the repos on my computer, then running > go get to restore them does not change git status. It still sahs changes > not stated for commit: modified. > > This happens for the above 3 tree items. > > How do I restore these to the github remote repository condition and not > have my own git tree mark these as changed? > > --rob solomon > -- ======================================== Adrian Hawryluk BSc. Computer Science ---------------------------------------- Specialising in: OOD Methodologies in UML OOP Methodologies in C, C++ and more RT Embedded Programming GUI Development ========================================