Reset local repo to be exactly the same as remote repo

Question

How do I reset my local git repo to be exactly the same as the remote repo?

I've tried:

git reset --hard HEAD^ 

But now git status says I have diverging commits. I basically want to just wipe anything I've got locally and get the exact remote repo on my local machine.

Answer 1

git reset --hard HEAD^ will only reset your working copy to the previous (parent) commit. Instead, you want to run

git reset --hard origin/master 

Assuming remote is origin and the branch you want to reset to is master

Answer 2

You could delete the current branch, and create the branch again at the remote/branchname commit

git branch -D branchname git checkout remote/branchname git branch branchname