[h_r]

The first thing I thought when I read this is why do you have to do this so often that you scripted it? It's good that you thought of a way to save time but this solution seems like a very blunt instrument to get back to some previous state.

[randomsearch]

Most likely answer is “git’s ux”, in my experience. So often it’s just faster and reassuring to reclone rather than resolve some unusual state you’ve accidentally put your local repo in, because a command didn’t do what you expected it to do.