How to discard local commits in Git

Question

I d been working on something  and decided it was completely screwed   after having committed some of it  So I tried the following sequence   git reset --hard git rebase origin git fetch git pull git checkout   At which point I got the message  Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 2 commits    I want to discard my local commits  without having to wipe out my local directory and redownload everything  How can I accomplish that

User · Answer

You need to run   git fetch   To get all changes and then you will not receive message with  your branch is ahead

User · Answer

As an aside  apart from the answer by mipadi  which should work by the way   you should know that doing   git branch -D master git checkout master   also does exactly what you want without having to redownload everything  your quote paraphrased   That is because your local repo contains a copy of the remote repo  and that copy is not the same as your local directory  it is not even the same as your checked out branch    Wiping out a branch is perfectly safe and reconstructing that branch is very fast and involves no network traffic  Remember  git is primarily a local repo by design  Even remote branches have a copy on the local  There s only a bit of metadata that tells git that a specific local copy is actually a remote branch  In git  all files are on your hard disk all the time   If you don t have any branches other than master  you should   git checkout -b  temp  git branch -D master git checkout master git branch -D temp

User · Answer

What I do is I try to reset hard to HEAD  This will wipe out all the local commits   git reset --hard HEAD

User · Answer

I had to do a    git checkout -b master   as git said that it doesn t exists  because it s been wipe with the  git -D master

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git reset --hard origin master   will remove all commits not in origin master where origin is the repo name and master is the name of the branch

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I have seen instances where the remote became out of sync and needed to be updated  If a reset --hard or a branch -D fail to work  try  git pull origin git reset --hard

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