Need to reset git branch to origin version

Question

I was accidentally working on a branch I shouldn\'t have been for a while, so I branched off of it giving it the appropriate name. Now I want to overwrite the branch I shou

Answer 1

I tried this and it didn't reset my current branch to my remote github latest. I googled and found https://itsyndicate.org/blog/how-to-use-git-force-pull-properly/

which suggested

git fetch origin master
git reset --hard origin/master

I wanted to reset my v8 branch so I did

git fetch origin v8
git reset --hard origin/v8

and it worked