Local git repo force updated from a remote git repo. (thick-client deployments)

Question

Update: I think this is related to an issue with the windows git client msysgit. Sorry to trouble you guys. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?i

Answer 1

I'm assuming you have a good reason for using Git for this, rather than rsync.

This is how I'd do it (on the Clients):

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

Note that you need to reset to origin/master rather than HEAD because the local HEAD doesn't include the origin's newest commits (yet).