如何拉取远程repo的分支来覆盖本地repo的变化

Question

Git Structure:

1. Local repo:
    (1) main
    (2) test_branch

2. Remote repo:
    (1) main
    (2) test_branch

For some reasons, some contents in test_branch in the local repo are messed up, so I want to pull the test_branch in the remote repo to the test_branch in the local repo to recover the original structure.

Tried:

git checkout test_branch

git pull origin test_branch

But it didn't work.

Also dig other threads :

Git: How do I force "git pull" to overwrite local files?

Tried:

git fetch --all

git branch backup-test_branch

git reset --hard origin/test_branch

But it also didn't work.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Answer 1

You can always delete your local branch and recover from the remote, try the following:

git checkout main

git branch -D test_branch

git checkout test_branch

To explain what it's doing, it is changing the current branch to main , deleting the local copy of the test_branch and then changing back to the test_branch branch, but now synchronized with the remote one.