What is force pull?

Force pull is used to overwrite local files with updated files.

The git fetch command downloads the latest from remote without trying to merge or rebase anything.

The git reset command resets the master branch to what you just fetched. Any local commits that haven’t been pushed are lost.

Process of force pull

To force pull, first run the following fetch command to update all origin/ refs to the latest and update local files with new ones:

git fetch --all

Next, backup your current branch, as shown below:

git checkout -b backup-master

Now, we can merge it with the following command:

git reset --hard origin/master