Question

After doing

git reset --hard

I expected to see ‘HEAD is now at hexNumber’ and then ‘on branch master….nothing to commit. Instead I see

    wb316-mac03:MoodTrack student$ git reset --hard
    HEAD is now at ec11193 preparation for merge
    wb316-mac03:MoodTrack student$ 
    wb316-mac03:MoodTrack student$ git status
    # On branch master
    # Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged,
    # and have 2 and 9 different commits each, respectively.
    #
    nothing to commit (working directory clean)

I want to be completely overwritten by what’s in the remote master (without recloning). Did I do something wrong?

Answer 1

You should add the commit that you want to reset to:

$ git reset --hard origin/master

git reset --hard will just reset to HEAD (which was probably master in your case).