There is a force-pull property provided and by default it is false. You can make it true to avoid making your local repository dirty. Let's look at the following configuration:

spring: 
 cloud: 
   config: 
     server: 
       git:  
      uri: https://github.com/dineshonjava/app-config-repo 
         username: arnav 
         password: sweety 
         force-pull: true 

Let's see how to implement the Spring Cloud Config Client application in the next section.