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

The answers here are solid. I have needed this exact change when resetting my staging branch to master. In that case I want to both reset the origin to match master and also reset my local to match that. So here is a git alias that allows you to pass in the branch name and do both commands in one move. (It's a little dangerous)

reorient = "!f() { git push origin +master:$1 && git reset --hard origin/$1 ; }; f"

Then use it like:

git reorient hotfixes

The answers above were totally correct. But this will simply allow for fewer keystrokes and a quicker turnaround! Hope it helps.