How to reset a branch to another branch with git?

Question

let\'s say that we have an hotfixes branch which was created from master. we added commits to hotfixes, but those commits were not use

Answer 1

this is how i did it with basic Git commands:

git checkout hotfixes
git reset --hard master
git push --force origin hotfixes

of course it's important to notify everyone working on hotfixes. most likely they will have to delete their local copy and start from a fresh one. an alternative, less invasive idea is to create a new branch:

git checkout master
git branch -tb hotfixes-2 # this creates branch `hotfixes-2` from a copy of `master`
git push origin HEAD # this creates `hotfixes-2` on the remote server