Git Pull While Ignoring Local Changes?

Question

Is there a way to do a git pull that ignores any local file changes without blowing the directory away and having to perform a git clone?

Answer 1

For me, the following worked:

(1) First fetch all changes:

$ git fetch --all

(2) Then reset the master:

$ git reset --hard origin/master

(3) Pull/update:

$ git pull

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