Force overwrite of local file with what's in origin repo?
GitGit Problem Overview
I want to get the latest file that's in the repository, and overwrite what I have locally. How can I do this with the git client?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
If you want to overwrite only one file:
git fetch
git checkout origin/master <filepath>
If you want to overwrite all changed files:
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/master
(This assumes that you're working on master locally and you want the changes on the origin's master - if you're on a branch, substitute that in instead.)
Solution 2 - Git
Simplest version, assuming you're working on the same branch that the file you want is on:
git checkout path/to/file.
I do this so often that I've got an alias set to gc='git checkout'.
Solution 3 - Git
This worked for me:
git reset HEAD <filename>
Solution 4 - Git
Full sync has few tasks:
- reverting changes
- removing new files
- get latest from remote repository
>git reset HEAD --hard > >git clean -f > >git pull origin master
Or else, what I prefer is that, I may create a new branch with the latest from the remote using:
git checkout origin/master -b <new branch name>
origin is my remote repository reference, and master is my considered branch name. These may different from yours.
Solution 5 - Git
I believe what you are looking for is "git restore".
The easiest way is to remove the file locally, and then execute the git restore command for that file:
$ rm file.txt
$ git restore file.txt
Solution 6 - Git
if you want to override all your local changes with specific branch then u can do
git reset --hard origin/feature/branchname
feature/branchname -> is my branch name by which I replaced my all local changes
My intention to take all the changes from feature/branchname branch and commit to a branch in which I am working, the name of my branch is 'mybranch'. Then I first replaced my local changes which is I already pushed to my branch mybranch, then I have to pushed this command to my branch. Force push command is
git push --force
It will push whatever changes I got from 'feature/branchname' branch to my 'mybranch'.
Solution 7 - Git
After running into this problem, I finally tried git checkout --force <branch> and it did exactly that.