Can I do the following in a simpler way?
git checkout origin/master git branch -D master git branch master git checkout master 4 Answers
Git supports this command:
git checkout -B master origin/master Check out the origin/master branch and then reset master branch there.
UPDATE:
Or you can use new switch command for that
git switch -C master origin/master As KindDragon's answer mentions, you can recreate master directly at origin/master with:
git checkout -B master origin/master The git checkout man page mentions:
If -B is given, <new_branch> is created if it doesn’t exist; otherwise, it is reset. This is the transactional equivalent of
$ git branch -f <branch> [<start point>] $ git checkout <branch> Since Git 2.23+ (August 2019), since git checkout is too confusing, the new (still experimental) command is git switch:
git switch -C master origin/master That is:
-C <new-branch> --force-create <new-branch>Similar to
--createexcept that if<new-branch>already exists, it will be reset to<start-point>.
This is a convenient shortcut for:$ git branch -f <new-branch> $ git switch <new-branch>
Originally suggested:
Something like:
$ git checkout master # remember where the master was referencing to $ git branch previous_master # Reset master back to origin/master $ git reset --hard origin/master with step 2 being optional.
3I think even VonC's answer has complexity compared to this option:
git update-ref refs/heads/master origin/master git reset --hard master git automatically logs every value of a ref (through the reflog). So after you run that command, then master@{1} refers to the previous value of master.
VonC's answer is correct, but it wastes time checkout out the old value of master into the filesystem.
If you care about orphaned objects in the repo, then you can run git gc
If you are already on master you can do the following:
git reset --hard origin/master
It will point the local master branch to the remote origin/master and discard any modifications in the working dir.
