Git: How to overwrite local change?

If you want to save you changes first, you can commit them before and then checkout you code to previous commit(s): git checkout HEAD^ (one commit back) git checkout GEAD~2 (2 commits back)

Or, if you don't need your changes anymore, run git reset --hard HEAD

git checkout <name of file>

If you want to check out the whole repository, then from the root directory use

git checkout .

git reset --hard