Git Submodule Pull Overwrite/Discard Any Local Changes
I Have a Submodule Which I Changed Some Local Files. the Original Repository Has Been Modified and I Now Wish to Do a Pull on the Submodule, but I Get an Error...
I have a submodule which I changed some local files. The original repository has been modified and I now wish to do a pull on the submodule, but I get an error saying that I will lose my changes.
How do I force git to ignore local changes and do the pull?
I know there are lot's of similar questions to this, but I couldn't find a question in stack overflow that answered my particular problem (specifically submodules).
4 Answers
git reset --hard does exactly that - discard all changes and return to HEAD.
Or you can use git stash and after pull - git stash apply to restore your changes over updated tree.
This is what worked for me:
Change directory into the submodule then run this:
git checkout -f -b submodule-branch remotes/origin/submodule-branch
git submodule update --remote --force pathToSubmodude
I have a very silly solution, just clone all the files elsewhere, delete your local submodules, and put the new ones in.
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