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GIT - how to replace master branch with another branch
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2862590/how-to-replace-master-branch-in-git-entirely-from-another-branch
You should be able to use the "ours" merge strategy to overwrite master with AnotherBranch like this:
git checkout AnotherBranch
git merge -s ours master
git checkout master
git merge AnotherBranch
The result should be your master is now essentially AnotherBranch.
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