You will some time face situation where you need to completely replace the history of your local master with your remote master. Below are the few methods about how to reset/replace local branch completely with remote branch.
Method-1: Completely overwrite local master with remote branch
One line command to reset local branch with remote branch.
git reset --hard origin/master
This updates your local HEAD branch to be the same revision as origin/master, and --hard will sync this change into the index and workspace as well.
We will require to fetch first for syncing(update your list of remote branches and sync new commits):
git fetch origin remote_branch
Method-2: Renaming local branch and Pull request
This is safest method as you are moving your current staging/un-committed change in separate branch.
- Rename your local master branch
git branch -m local-branch local-branch-archive
2. Create a new master branch from a remote source
git checkout -b local-branch origin/remote-branch
Method-3: Deleting local branch and Pull request
- Delete your local branch:
git branch -d local_branch - Fetch the latest remote branch:
git fetch origin remote_branch - Rebuild the local branch based on the remote one:
git checkout -b local_branch origin/remote_branch
