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Adding a development branch after pushing to master

If you forget to create a development branch before developing, then need to patch master:

  1. Create a branch from the last commit
  2. Stash any uncommitted changes
  3. Reset the master branch to the last tagged release (or whenever)
  4. git push -f [email protected]:dotherightthing/reponame.git

If you try to do (4) via SourceTree then Github will complain that "github Updates were rejected because a pushed branch tip is behind its remote"

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