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Overwrite master

From
NWNicholas Wieland <nicholas.wieland@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2008, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID
<D1AC0A41-E89A-4B53-A449-DA9C4422998E@zooppa.com>

Hi *, I need to overwrite my master branch with another branch. I've already created a backup branch of my master. I tried a merge but it's just too big to handle, and I don't really care about what's in my master now. The reason I want to do something like this is to be able to branch directly from my master in the future and merge back smaller branches (basically what I didn't do this time ...) instead of trying to merge back a huge one. This time I've used git like I've used svn, my bad, very stupid thing ... Hope my question is clear.

TIA,
   ngw
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