Re: how to reorder commits

["Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>]

2009/7/20 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>:
> I have a sequence of commits. I tried to reorder the top two in this way.
> $ git rebase -i HEAD^^
>
> flip the two pick lines and exit vi
>
> I find my file full of conflict markers.

"git rebase" applies the changes between the commit and the parent,
and if the changes have conflicts this is what you get.

> So what is the way of doing:
> HEAD becomes current HEAD^
> HEAD^ becomes current HEAD

$ git branch old
$ git reset --hard HEAD~2
$ git read-tree old
$ git commit -C old
$ git read-tree old^
$ git commit -C old^

But normally you reorder "changes", not trees.

HTH,
Santi