Re: replacing a bad commit

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Blu Corater wrote:

> Here is the situation. Upstream realeses tarballs once in a while. I
> maintain local modifications. Every time upstream releases a tarball, I
> fast forward the 'upstream' branch, and merge into 'local' branch. My
> tree, currently, looks somewhat like this:
> 
>                o---o---o <--topic2
>                |
>                |  o---o---o <--topic1
>                | /
>    o---o---C---A---o---o <--local
>   /   /   /  
>  /   /   /
> o---o---o---B <--upstream
> 
> Problem is, B should have been merged into 'local', at A, but I just
> realized it wasn't (probably due to my own stupidity).
> 
> I need to correct A, i.e. merge with B, but keeping the branches already
> in flux, and propagating the changes due to the merge to them. In short,
> replace A with a properly merged A'.
> 
> I tried branching from C and merging with B, then rebasing topic branches,
> but then I am not sure how to rebase 'local'to eliminate A.

Try using

  $ git rebase --onto A' A local

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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