On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 09:01:54PM +0200, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > Hi, > > Since this is a use case that actually comes up quite often in > day-to-day use, especially among git beginners, I was wondering: is > there a specific reason why a command like "fetch changes from remote, > overwriting everything in my current working directory including all > commits I've made" doesn't exist? Now, I'm quite aware that something > like > > $ git fetch origin/branch > $ git reset --hard origin/branch
This is not exactly what you askeded for, but I tend not to recommend people using "git reset --hard" at all. Either use a "stash", just in case. Or, in your case: $ git fetch origin && git checkout origin/branch This will put your working tree onto origin/branch. As a bonus, in case that you have done commits, which are now no longer visible, "git reflog" is typically able to find them.
