Refreshing a git clone

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 06:29:38PM +0000, JB Caruth wrote:
> Can anybody help me with the git command to refresh (and overwrite) a
> previous clone?
> 
> > $ git clone  git://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git
> > fatal: destination path 'get_iplayer' already exists and is not an empty directory.
> 

If you really don't care about the local changes, you can just blow away
the clone and start again:

$ rm -rf ./get_iplayer
$ git clone git://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git

> If I have previously updated the web PVR via the "update software"
> link it also gives an error that there are local changes to commit
> before I can update.
> 
> So how do I just pull the latest out of git and clobber anything local
> whether changed or not?

To reset the local changes and then update the local clone:

$ cd get_iplayer
$ git add .
$ git reset --hard
$ git pull --rebase


> 
> Thanks.
> 
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