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Fetched to wrong branch in GIT

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I have a local repository and a remote at GitHub. My local repo had a master branch and the remote had only a gh-pages branch.

I wanted to pull from my gh-pages remote branch (with "git pull origin gh-pages"). I was about to commit on the master branch and I realized I had no local gh-pages branch. So I put a blank message, to avoid commiting to the master branch.

I unstaged the changes with "git reset HEAD", but how can I remove the already fetched files. I mean, is there something I have to do after unstaging the fetched files?

Many thanks for your help,

posted Dec 19, 2016 by anonymous

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try executing

git reset HEAD --hard 
answer Dec 20, 2016 by Arshad Khan
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