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From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: Hans Ginzel <hans@matfyz.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to rebase one branch of the merge commit?
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:28:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422818908.29011.6.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150201184214.GA89666@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

On zo, 2015-02-01 at 19:42 +0100, Hans Ginzel wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Suppose following git history:
> 
> A–M–C
>   /
> B
> 
> How to achieve this with commits metadata preserving?
> 
> A–M'–C'
>   /
> B'
> 
> I did
> 
> git checkout B
> git add something_not_in_other_commits
> git commit --amend
> 
> So I have B'. How to continue, please? My git version is 1.7.1 (Centos 6.5).

Assuming you have a branch pointing to C and no uncommitted changes:

1) git checkout branch-that-points-to-c
2) git rev-parse branch-that-point-to-c
3) git reset --hard A
4) git merge B'
5) git cherry-pick sha1-that-was-the-output-of-step-2

-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-01 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01 18:42 How to rebase one branch of the merge commit? Hans Ginzel
2015-02-01 19:28 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2015-02-09 11:38   ` Hans Ginzel

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