git: Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged - how to throw away local commits

I have the following message in git: # Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, # and have 3 and 8 different commits each, respectively. # (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours) I would like to throw away the 3 local commits, and pull the 8 remote commits at origin/master. (Merging is going to be too difficult, I'd rather make the 3 local commits again once master is up to date.)

To erase your latest local commit use the following: git fetch origin git reset --hard origin/master You will get following message: HEAD is now at 76b2d560 .......................