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chiccaboom
chiccaboom

Reputation: 317

How do I update my branch with master branch and override any changes I made on my branch?

I have my branch called (branch 1) and it has become out of date with the master branch. I want to update branch 1 with the master branch code and I would like to erase any changes that I made on branch 1. I essentially just want to update branch 1 with the most up to date version of the master branch and I don't care about losing my work on branch 1.

I have looked through stackoverflow and I think I should be doing a git rebase master? but I don't think that that erases the changes I made on branch 1.

I just want to make sure. Can someone please confirm?

I don't want any changes to be made to the master branch at all. I just want to update branch 1 FROM the master branch.

thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1693

Answers (3)

Dhyan
Dhyan

Reputation: 581

Let me see if i can explain in steps :

1) You need to be in sync with your remote repository . So you do a fetch from your remote ... (origin is the default remote .. you can also fetch it from other remote if you have configured with different name..)
COMMAND : git fetch origin

2) If you dont want anything from you current branch .Then first remove all local changes from unstaged files .stash should take care of this ..
COMMAND : git stash

3) Now switch over to master branch .So that you can delete the "branch 1" that you are trying to fix . (This is because you cannot delete the branch that you are already on)
COMMAND : git checkout master

4) Delete your old "branch 1"
COMMAND : git branch -D "branch 1"

5) create a fresh branch "branch 1 " out from your remote master
COMMAND : git checkout -b "branch 1" origin/master

Note: Source Tree is a great tool that can help you with all this ..

Upvotes: 1

Harish Ved
Harish Ved

Reputation: 570

If you are currently on local branch1, do - 

1) git checkout .
2) git pull

Make sure your remote upstream is the required branch or you can set the remote upstream by

git branch --set-upstream-to origin/my_branch

git rebase master will update your changes locally after getting the changes from the remote master branch.

Note - If you have made any commits locally, it would be easier to delete the local master branch and create a fresh branch with remote master as upstream.

You can do this by -

1) git fetch
2) git checkout -b new_master origin/master
3) git branch -D master

This will create a new branch 'new_master' locally deleting the old master branch.

Or better yet (if you have no local changes in any of the branches) - delete your repo and clone the code again!

Upvotes: 1

ipodlover3354
ipodlover3354

Reputation: 469

If you have the GitHub client you can add a basic file to the directory and commit the changes to branch 1. **If you don't ** you can delete the branch and create it off of the master branch.

Upvotes: 0

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