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Re: git-reset any branch head

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ZZoltánFüzesi <zfuzesi@eaglet.hu>
Date
Jul 29, 2009, 11:37 UTC
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Santi Béjar <santi <at> agolina.net> writes:
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> 2009/7/29 ZoltánFüzesi <zfuzesi <at> eaglet.hu>:
> > Hi, sometimes it would be nice to reset not only the current,
> > but any given branch head. What do you think?
> 
> git update-ref
> 
> or do  you mean with porcelain commands?
> 
> HTH,
> Santi
>

Suppose I have 3 branches A, B, C, and A is checked out. I would like to set B's head to point to C's with a command like: git-reset --head B C

Currently I can achieve it by 2 commands: git-checkout B git-reset --hard C

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