git, how to I go back to origin master after pulling a branch

Question

This has to be a FAQ, but I can't find it googling.

Another person created a branch, commit'd to it, and pushed it to github using git push origin newbranch

I successfully pulled it down using

git pull origin newbranch

Now, I want to go back to the origin master version. Nothing I do seems to cause the files in the origin master to replace those in the newbranch.

git checkout master
git checkout origin master
git pull
git pull origin HEAD
etc

git pull origin master returns:

* branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

This can't be hard, but I sure can't figure it out.

'git branch' returns

* master

and 'git branch -r' return

  origin/HEAD
  origin/experimental
  origin/master

Answer 1

This should work to do what you need:

git checkout origin/master

Answer 2

Next time, maybe you can use git fetch first, after that, use git merge.

This will make your operation more clear.

Br, Tim