Let’s say I have been working on a project and at 08:41:11 have pushed my branch to the remote repository’s branch (origin/feature/server-java).
git log of my local repo and the remote repo (origin/feature-server-java) look like:
92x301b Change to Server java 08:41:11
91881cc Remove Server GO 08:01:10
5f11b11 Change to yaml config 07:50:55
5f462ff Remove json config 07:10:55
7119093 Remove old config 06:30:33
13829ac New Client URL 06:10:40
Then some of the experienced developers pulled the project and made changes (squashed and deleted some commits) to git commits’ history, afterwards he –force pushed that changes to the same remote branch (origin/feature/server-java).
Now remote repo (origin/feature/server-java) looks like (by 10:50:10):
32122ae Add Server 10:50:10
fff5223 Add config yaml 09:50:55
23cc544 Change Client URL 09:10:40
These commit history changes haven’t changed source code at all (all tests are still passed as before). But now I wish to git pull that origin/feature/server-java with this changed history. How would I do this? My goal is to completely override the existing my local git commits’ history with the remote one.
Seems, that git pull --no-ff origin feature/server-java doesn’t help.
>Solution :
You need to fetch first:
git fetch origin
Then origin/feature/server-java should be up-to-date with what’s in the server. Normally you would want to do git merge or git rebase, but if you are sure you don’t want any of your local changes, just do:
git reset --hard origin/feature/server-java
Now your branch will be exactly the same as the remote branch.