How do I make a side branch my master branch again in Git?

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My project went south, so I created a branch called F*****UP. Now that is the good branch, so I would like to back up Master, and make F*****UP the master branch again. How to I do this on the Git command line? Git for Windows that is.

Posted 20-Sep-14 6:52am

Brady Kelly

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Thomas Daniels 20-Sep-14 12:58pm

Do you want to merge the branches, or do you want to make the current master branch another branch and make F*****UP the new master branch?

Brady Kelly 20-Sep-14 13:08pm

I don't want to merge. I want to make F****UP the master again, and make the current master another branch.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Sep-14 13:03pm

I guess, some systems can be offended by foul language; try to avoid it. :-)
—SA

Brady Kelly 20-Sep-14 13:09pm

I'm working with SQLCE in VB.NET. The language you see here is mild.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Sep-14 13:32pm

:-)
We had such a joke in the past:

The book "Software Development for Microsoft Windows" was published with the classifier "NC-17" or "17+". Why? "Strong language". :-)

—SA

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Thomas Daniels · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-20T07:22:00

You can rename branches using git branch -m oldname newname (or just git branch -m newname if you want to rename the current branch). You can do that here too:

git branch -m master oldmaster
git branch -m F*****UP master

Note that if you want to push upstream now, you'll have to force push (by adding the -f argument to git push).