Undo a conflicting change in your working copy that you didn't want anyway

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on May 16, 2009 - 12:36am

In short, resolve a conflict in favor of the outside repository.

The file can be a

mv offending.file ~/elsewhere git checkout offending.file

Searched words:

git undo reset revert rewind repeal redo unset unwind expunge expunch conflict chain

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