From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to create a new commit with the content of some commit?
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:38:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46dff0320905120938m36018b45y780126df42ed4194@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhbzq8g7u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> a----b
>> \----c
>>
>> Given the graph above, I want to create a commit b1 on top of c, where
>> b1 and b have the same content. i.e.
>>
>> a----b
>> \----c----b1 ( content(b) == content(b1) )
>
> On "c", you can:
>
> git read-tree -m -u b
> git commit
is -u necessary?
>
> I think with newer git you can say
>
> git reset --merge b
> git commit
>
When the working directory is clean, it seems "reset --hard" and
"reset --merge" behave the same. So after "git reset --merge b", the
HEAD is moved to b, and i have nothing to commit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 14:35 How to create a new commit with the content of some commit? Ping Yin
2009-05-12 15:47 ` Ping Yin
2009-05-12 16:04 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-05-13 14:36 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-05-12 15:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-12 16:38 ` Ping Yin [this message]
2009-05-12 16:07 ` Jeff King
2009-05-12 16:43 ` Ping Yin
2009-05-12 16:51 ` Jeff King
2009-05-12 16:59 ` Ping Yin
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