GIT: How to reset your local branch to master branch

Imagine you have made few local commits and you don't want to commit all of them. Instead you want to go back to the master branch state.

git reset --hard origin/master     // This won't work!

Setting your branch to exactly match the remote branch can be done in two steps

git fetch origin

git reset --hard origin/master

If you want to save your current branch's state before doing this (just in case), you can do:

git commit -a -m "Saving my work, just in case"

git branch my-saved-work