Move back with git by moving a branch pointer

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Let's consider this situation:

                  v devel
o--x--o--o--o--o--o
                \ 
                 o--o
                    ^ feature

I would like to move the devel branch to x and replace it with a new name:

   v devel        v fork
o--o--o--o--o--o--o
                \ 
                 o--o
                    ^ feature

From other questions on SO, I found that git update-ref or git rebase might help. However the solution I found is:

git branch -m devel fork
git checkout -b devel x   # where x is the commit number `x`

Is this a correct solution?

asked 54 secs ago

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Move back with git by moving a branch pointer