Reset Drupal.org issue fork to latest origin to restart from scratch

Sometimes using Drupal.org issue forks you run into the situation that you'd like to start from scratch with the latest origin version. For example, you want to reset an old issue fork back to the 4.x origin and discard all changes in the issue fork.

This may, for example happen, if things were messed up or rebase didn't work as expected.

These are the steps you need to take. As our example we're using the drowl_header_slides moduel with the issue [#3309682]:

# Regular steps to check out an issue fork
# Example from drowl_header_slides module with issue #3309682:
git clone --branch '4.x' git@git.drupal.org:project/drowl_header_slides.git
cd drowl_header_slides
git remote add drowl_header_slides-3309682 git@git.drupal.org:issue/drowl_header_slides-3309682.git
git fetch drowl_header_slides-3309682
git checkout -b '3309682-detect-parent-menu-items-by-trail' --track drowl_header_slides-3309682/'3309682-detect-parent-menu-items-by-trail'

# Steps to reset the issue fork back to the origin 4.x implementation
git fetch origin
git checkout 4.x
git checkout 3309682-detect-parent-menu-items-by-trail
git reset --hard origin/4.x
git push --set-upstream drowl_header_slides-3309682 HEAD --force

Now your issue fork is fresh, cleaned up and ready for coding again :)