GIT: How to copy contents of one branch to other branch?

Question

I have \'develop\' and \'InitialPomChanges\' branches. I want to copy all the contents of develop branch to InitialPomChanges branch.

Answer 1

Assuming you want to overwrite all the contents of InitialPomChanges with what is in develop (i.e. you want the contents of InitialPomChanges to exactly match develop), do the following:

git checkout InitialPomChanges
git checkout develop .  #copies the contents of develop into the working directory
git commit -am "Making InitialPomChanges match develop"

This will make the last commit in InitialPomChanges match the last commit in develop. To make future merges between the two branches easier, it would be a good idea to now do a git merge develop.

Alternatively, if you want to change the contents of InitialPomChanges and do the merge in one single commit, you can do:

git checkout InitialPomChanges
git merge -s theirs develop