Throw away local commits in Git

Question

Due to some bad cherry-picking, my local Git repository is currently five commits ahead of the origin, and not in a good state. I want to get rid of all these commits and st

Answer 1

For those interested in the Visual Studio solution, here is the drill:

1. In the Team Explorer window, connect to the target repo.
2. Then from Branches, right-click the branch of interest and select View history.
3. Right-click a commit in the History window and choose Reset -> Delete changes (--hard).

That will throw away your local commits and reset the state of your repo to the selected commit. I.e. Your changes after you pulled the repo will be lost.

Answer 2

Simple Solution will be to match local master branch HEAD to origin/master branch HEAD

git reset --hard origin/master

PS: origin/master - is remote pointer to master branch. You can replace master with any branch name