Using the remote branch instead of local branch in git

Question

I want git to forget everything that I have edited in local branch, and want to pull the update from remote branch.

I did not know how to do that and I am getting merge conflicts on few files.

What should I do if I do not want to merge the files at all (local edits need to be deleted) and start new with the remote HEAD?

Answer 1

Supposing you are talking about changes done on master branch for instance:

git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master
git pull

You reset master HEAD on the one of remote/master , and then can fetch remote/master + merge it to local master .

Answer 2

Why don't you just delete your local copy, and reclone the remote? That's effectively like deleting all your changes, without having to have local history for unwanted changes.