Git Pull While Ignoring Local Changes?

Question

Is there a way to do a git pull that ignores any local file changes without blowing the directory away and having to perform a git clone?

Answer 1

You just want a command which gives exactly the same result as rm -rf local_repo && git clone remote_url, right? I also want this feature. I wonder why git does not provide such a command (such as git reclone or git sync), neither does svn provide such a command (such as svn recheckout or svn sync).

Try the following command:

git reset --hard origin/master
git clean -fxd
git pull