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		mungoman2 on Sept 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some bad Git situations and how I got myself out o... Or use git branch -m to rename master to something else, then checkout master anew.

mmun on Sept 9, 2016 | [–]

Or this variant

  git checkout -b actual-branch
  git branch -f master origin/master

OskarS on Sept 9, 2016 | [–]

That's clever, I'll remember that. But don't you lose all tracking information if you do that?

phaemon on Sept 9, 2016 | [–]

What tracking information are you referring to?

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