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 On local machines, to update from canonical GitLab repo:
 
     git pull origin master
+
+If there are local changes to overwrite:
+
+    git fetch --all
+    git reset --hard origin/master
+
+To update the canonical repo with local committed changes:
+
+    git push origin master