How do I force git pull to overwrite everything on every pull

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I have a CENTRAL bare repository that has three developer repositories pulling and pushing to it normally   I also have two other repositories that pull from the CENTRAL bare repo  one is the live server  and the other is a test stage server   each pulling from its own respective branch   The scenario is this  I have a post-update hook script on the CENTRAL repo that automatically accesses the test and live repos and runs a pull command on each  This updates both test and live servers  all depending on what branch has new commits  This all works great   The problem is this  there may be times in an emergency that files may be directly updated on the server  via ftp or whatever  and the CENTRAL post-update script will then fail since merge overwrite conflicts will occur  There is no way to avoid this scenario  and it is inevitable   What I would like to have happen is this  I want the pull from the live and test sites to always overwrite merge on pull  Always  These repos will be pull-only as they are not for development   In all my research  I cannot find a good solution to have a pull always force an overwrite of the local files  Is this at all possible  It would make for a great development scenario if so

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To pull a copy of the branch and force overwrite of local files from the origin use   git reset --hard origin current branch   All current work will be lost and it will then be the same as the origin branch

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Really the ideal way to do this is to not use pull at all  but instead fetch and reset   git fetch origin master git reset --hard FETCH HEAD git clean -df    Altering master to whatever branch you want to be following    pull is designed around merging changes together in some way  whereas reset is designed around simply making your local copy match a specific commit   You may want to consider slightly different options to clean depending on your system s needs

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git reset --hard HEAD git fetch --all git reset --hard origin your branch

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If you haven t commit the local changes yet since the last pull clone  you can use   git checkout   git pull   checkout will clear your local changes with the last local commit  and pull will sincronize it to the remote repository

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You can change the hook to wipe everything clean     Danger  Wipes local data     Remove all local changes to tracked files git reset --hard HEAD    Remove all untracked files and directories git clean -dfx  git pull

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I m not sure how to do it in one command but you could do something like   git reset --hard git pull   or even   git stash git pull

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You could try this   git reset --hard HEAD git pull    from How do I force  quot git pull quot  to overwrite local files    Another idea would be to delete the entire git and make a new clone

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