• Based on the GitHub approach, you can discard or reset local changes in the working directory and staging area after the current commit using the following two approaches:

» Discard or reset any changes you made in the working directory.

git reset --hard

» Discard or reset any changes you made in staging area after current commit.

git reset HEAD^

» Conduct to reset the branch to a specific commit (<commit_SHA>), discard all changes in the staging area and working directory. 

git reset --hard <commit_SHA>