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Moving a Git Branch to a Newer Commit
To update your branch initial-exploration
to point to a newer commit (d293dsfre
) in the commit graph, you can follow these steps:
1. Checkout the branch
Make sure you’re on the initial-exploration
branch:
git checkout initial-exploration
2. Update the branch to the desired commit
Use the git reset
command to move the branch pointer to the new commit (d293dsfre
):
git reset --hard e3265da1
3. Verify the branch’s new position
You can confirm that the branch now points to the desired commit by running:
git log --oneline
This will show you that initial-exploration
is now at d293dsfre
.
Notes:
--hard
Reset: This will update both your working directory and index to match the new commit. Be cautious, as any uncommitted changes will be lost.- If you don’t want to lose uncommitted changes, you can use
--soft
instead of--hard
, which only moves the branch pointer without modifying your working directory or index:git reset --soft d293dsfre
Alternatively, if you want to create a new branch at d293dsfre
instead of updating initial-exploration
, you can do:
git checkout -b new-branch-name d293dsfre