Messing with getting abandoned git repo back into use… again!
Local files are not tracked by git at all so first initialize repo and add remote origin.
Then:
Make a new branch with the local files:
git checkout -b staging
Get the remote files:
git checkout master
Really destructively replace all files in master with those in staging:
git reset --hard staging
Show all the changed files, aside from those in .gitignore:
git ls-files -o --exclude-standard
Return all the changed files, aside from those in .gitignore and delete them:
git ls-files -o --exclude-standard | xargs rm