How do I reset the git master branch to the upstream branch in a forked repository?

Question

I\'ve completely messed up the master branch of my forked git repo.

I want to completely reset the master branch that was pushed to my fork with the contents of the

Answer 1

git reset --hard @{upstream}

or, shorter:

git reset --hard @{u}

Or you can even take it one step further and setup an alias that will allow you to simply type git scrub:

git config --global alias.scrub 'reset --hard @{upstream}'

(This assumes that your branch is configured to track the corresponding remote branch, which it typically is, unless you are doing something special. See git-branch(1) for more details on tracking and git-rev-parse(1) for details on the branch specification syntax.)

And then you just git push --force to your fork, as explained in other answers.