Question

I am looking a file in master on git hub.

I am looking at the same file on my local repo but it is not reflect changes in the master file on the repo committed by someone else.

I tried git pull
git fetch and merge.

What else to I have to do?

Answer 1

If there are no changes that you want to keep in your working folder, and assuming you did run fetch successfully, you can

git stash -u # safely clean up your working folder

Then point master to the remote’s version (assuming your remote is called origin):

git merge --ff-only origin/master # if master is checked out

or

git push . origin/master:master # if master is not checked out

If you get an error with the last 2, you can add the --force option but remember to save the master to another branch or tag before doing so with

git branch temp master
git push origin yourname/temp

or

git tag -m "last master" temp
git push origin yourname/temp

the “yourname” part of the remote branch or tag is to let others know that it’s your branch and you don’t necessarily believe it to be valuable to others.