How to update my staging branch to be an exact copy of main

Question

On my deployment workflow I constantly need to make fine testing adjustment in my staging branch, I test things out in there and then open a hotfix branch from main to implement the fix.

The problem is that after merging the hotfix with main I usually end up with a branch history that is incompatible to merge or rebase with my current staging branch.

How can I simply turn my staging branch into a copy of main, without merging?

Answer 1

Since you want your branches to be literally identical you can simply delete your staging branch and create a new "staging" branch from main.

git checkout main

git branch -d staging

git branch staging