Question

How do I reset my local git repo to be exactly the same as the remote repo?

I’ve tried:

git reset --hard HEAD^

But now git status says I have diverging commits. I basically want to just wipe anything I’ve got locally and get the exact remote repo on my local machine.

Answer 1

git reset --hard HEAD^ will only reset your working copy to the previous (parent) commit. Instead, you want to run

git reset --hard origin/master

Assuming remote is origin and the branch you want to reset to is master