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Asked: 2026-05-28T19:41:58+00:00

I keep my vim configuration files on github to keep them synched across multiple

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I keep my vim configuration files on github to keep them synched across multiple machines. Once in a while I use a machine I haven’t used in a while and the vim files are way out of synch. If I simply

git pull

from remote the directory becomes messy since old files (or renamed files) not present anymore in the official remote stay put. So what I typically do is to delete everything and git clone from scratch.

Is that the best approach? Ideally I would like to have a command

git xxx

which delete/replace everything making a perfect replica of the remote

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  1. Editorial Team
    git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master

    Where origin is the remote, and master is the remote branch you want to your local working copy to be in sync with. Note that these commands replace any local files (including changes) with the remote state. That means that there will be no merge conflicts. It mimics your delete-and-reclone workflow.

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