Restore local master to remote master

Restore your master branch to the state on the remote.

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

You can also replace instances of master with feature-branch.

This is useful if you have local commits on a branch that you haven’t pushed. Or a rebase has been done on the remote and you are happy to use that remote and drop local commits.

Restore feature branch to remote master

This can be useful if you have a feature branch you want to throw away but you want to keep the name.

git checkout feature-branch
git reset --hard origin/main

Clean directory

Unstage changes and revert files to version control state.

$ git reset --hard

Or unstage changes and then revert files to version control state.

git reset
git checkout .

Note reset HEAD is implied.

You can also target a branch or commit.

$ git reset --hard HEAD~

$ git reset --hard origin/main