How to completely replace all branch content with commits from another branch.
Let's say:
- your project has an
experimentalbranch for testing; - you have some fixes in branch
fix-345; - you want to overwrite content and history from
fix-345toexperimentalbranch; - you don't need to save any changes in
experimental.
Then you can reset experimental branch with the following commands:
git checkout experimental
git reset --hard fix-345
git push --force origin experimental
Steps description
git checkout — checkout to the branch to be overwritten.
git reset --hard — get all changes from source branch to the target.
git push --force origin — force push your local changes for target branch
