Local git repo force updated from a remote git repo. (thick-client deployments)

Question

Update: I think this is related to an issue with the windows git client msysgit. Sorry to trouble you guys. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?i

Answer 1

The following two commands should reset the client's working tree to a clean state, i.e. identical to how it was following the preceding git clone:

git reset --hard HEAD

This will undo any modifications made to files which are tracked (i.e. which exist in the repo).

git clean -fdx

This will remove any files which have been newly created by the client, i.e. which are not tracked by git.