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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Q: rebasing (moving) a whole tree (not just one branch)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:26:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110318202637.GA23255@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D83BB0A.8070307@dirk.my1.cc>

Hi Dirk,

Dirk Süsserott wrote:

> I'd like to rebase a whole tree from A to B. Not just a single
> branch, but a whole tree. Let's say I have the following history:
>
> --- A --- B
>     |
>     + -- C -- D
>          |
>          + E -- F
> 
> I'd like to rebase C and its descendants from A to B

I'd suggest cheating by making a merge of D and F and "rebase -p"-ing
that. :)

To say something more sensible would probably require more information
about the particular application, though.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-18 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-18 20:05 Q: rebasing (moving) a whole tree (not just one branch) Dirk Süsserott
2011-03-18 20:26 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-03-18 21:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-18 21:34     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-18 22:53     ` Johannes Sixt

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