How to discard local changes and pull latest from GitHub repository

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I have a directory on my machine where I store all projects from GitHub  I opened one of them and made changes locally on my machine  Project got messed up and now I want to discard all the changes I made and pull the latest version from the repository  I am relatively new to GitHub  using Git Shell    Would git pull command be sufficient  Do I need to do anything extra to discard the changes made locally  Can anyone help

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Run the below commands  git log   From this you will get your last push commit hash key  git reset --hard  lt your commit hash key gt

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git reset is what you want  but I m going to add a couple extra things you might find useful that the other answers didn t mention   git reset --hard HEAD resets your changes back to the last commit that your local repo has tracked   If you made a commit  did not push it to GitHub  and want to throw that away too  see  absiddiqueLive s answer   git clean -df will discard any new files or directories that you may have added  in case you want to throw those away   If you haven t added any  you don t have to run this   git pull  or if you are using git shell with the GitHub client  git sync will get the new changes from GitHub   Edit from way in the future  I updated my git shell the other week and noticed that the git sync command is no longer defined by default  For the record  typing git sync was equivalent to git pull  amp  amp  git push in bash   I find it still helpful so it is in my bashrc

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To push over old repo  git push -u origin master --force  I think the --force would work for a pull as well

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In addition to the above answers  there is always the scorched earth method   rm -R  lt folder gt    in Windows shell the command is   rd  s  lt folder gt    Then you can just checkout the project again   git clone -v  lt repository URL gt     This will definitely remove any local changes and pull the latest from the remote repository  Be careful with rm -R as it will delete your good data if you put the wrong path  For instance  definitely do not do   rm -R     edit  To fix spelling and add emphasis

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If you already committed the changes than you would have to revert changes   If you didn t commit yet  just do a clean checkout git checkout

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