The simplest and easiest way for Git newbies to restore their working copy back to a clean situation, so they don't feel eerie about Git's perils.

Bob:

"Aaaaaargh! I'm terribly scared of this working tree!
It bit me three times already! I'm hurt and I'm lost.
Git sucks."

Alice:

"¡No problemo, El Bobbos!
git-panic is here to the rescue!"

After downloading the sources from Github, you can install git-panic, using:

$ sudo make install

By default, git-panic will be installed in /usr/local. To change the prefix where git-panic will be installed, simply specify it explicitly, using:

$ sudo make prefix=/opt/local install

Or simply point your PATH environment variable to your git-panic checkout directory.

If you know of a scary and/or hairy git working tree state that every Git newbie will wet his/her pants over, please feel free to extend git-panic to tackle those, too. Send me pull requests or patches and I will include those.