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git replace local repo contents with new remote repo contents
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git_clobber_contents.sh
# sometimes your local repo is created by some tool and you need to seed it with some other
# sample code where you don't need/want to fork the sample code. Try this:
GIT_SRC_URL=$1
remote add simplecode $GIT_SRC_URL
git pull simplecode master -X theirs --allow-unrelated-histories
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