Why is there no force pull?

Hi,

Since this is a use case that actually comes up quite often in day-to-day use, especially among git beginners, I was wondering: is there a specific reason why a command like "fetch changes from remote, overwriting everything in my current working directory including all commits I've made" doesn't exist? Now, I'm quite aware that something like

    $ git fetch origin/branch
    $ git reset --hard origin/branch

will do the trick just fine, but (like I mentioned, especially for beginners) this kind of seems like a crook. Why not have a single command for accomplishing this? Afterall we do have a `--force` flag on `git push`, which practically does the same thing in reverse.

Just reaching out to get some input on this, as it seems like a quite curious inconsistency to me.

-- Regards, Christoph