From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:32:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Overwrite master
Message-ID: <eaa105840812020832p395ecefdq57e62f95182a3557@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D1AC0A41-E89A-4B53-A449-DA9C4422998E@zooppa.com>

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:
> Hi *,
> I need to overwrite my master branch with another branch. I've already
> created a backup branch of my master.

While on master,
"git reset --hard <newbranch>"

Or while on a different branch,
git branch -D master
git branch master <newbranch>

Peter Harris