Moving master head to a branch

Question

I have several feature branches and a master branch. Feature2 is done. Normally I would rebase (working with a remote SVN repo and would like to keep the history, so no regular

Answer 1

The update-ref is safe. A branch head is nothing more than a little "read me!" tag hung on a commit. It's purely by convention that git picks it up and hangs it on a different commit for you at times.

Using git branch -f master G does not result in any visible changes

What does git log --decorate --oneline --all say? git show master?