Git: Make one branch exactly like another

Question

I am relatively new to Git, and I\'m still not very comfortable with it. Right now, I\'m looking for the command/options/magic that can make the current branch look like anothe

Answer 1

The accepted answer ("Branches are just pointers ...") is no good for me, because not only do I need my branch to look like another branch - I need to do so by only apply another commits (not losing any of the commits in the current history of my branch).

I liked this approach for making branch A look like branch B:

git checkout B git diff A > patch_to_make_A_like_B git checkout A git apply patch_to_make_A_like_B

(And rm patch_to_make_A_like_B at the end.)