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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Announcing git-reparent
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:08:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21udnzfvp.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA01Csoh24ppo37fzptzZKvFrzGQyhz-0eDTQsP8tZiTRQ2YwA@mail.gmail.com> (Piotr Krukowiecki's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:03:31 +0100")

Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:

> Just wondering, is the result different than something like
>
> git checkout commit_to_reparent
> cp -r * ../snapshot/
> git reset --hard new_parent
> rm -r *
> cp -r ../snapshot/* .
> git add -A

I think you are looking for "git reset --soft new_parent", which keeps
both the index and the working tree intact.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14  6:15 Announcing git-reparent Mark Lodato
2013-01-14  7:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-14  8:03   ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2013-01-14 20:08     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2013-01-14 20:28     ` Mark Lodato
2013-01-14  8:05   ` Junio C Hamano

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