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From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: Overwrite master
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:32:29 -0500
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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