How to ignore an error on git pull about my local changes would be overwritten by merge

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Hi Team,

I am trying to run the Git pull command. But it is showing me the below error.

Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge
Jan 5, 2021 in Git & GitHub by akhtar
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Hi Team,

If you want to remove all local changes - including files that are untracked by git - from your working copy, simply stash them:

$ git stash push --include-untracked

If you don't need them anymore, you now can drop that stash.

$ git stash drop
answered Jan 5, 2021 by MD
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