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How to reset your local Git repository to match the remote repository exactly

Note August 09, 2024
bash

  • -f stands for "force" and tells git clean to remove untracked files.
  • -d means also remove untracked directories.
  • -x means also remove the files ignored by git, like those mentioned in .gitignore.

If you have multiple branches and you want all your local branches to match the remote branches, you can check out each branch and repeat the reset command: