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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp•org>
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: request for documentation about branch surgery
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:06:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A531E30.5040907@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907071151.03567.bruno@clisp.org>

Bruno Haible wrote:
> I said.
> 
> Still, can someone please extend the cited chapter of the user's manual,

Presumably you can. I'll jot down some notes for you though ;-)

> so that it answers these questions?
>   - How do I insert some commits between other commits in a branch?
>                                                        [TODO]

git rebase --interactive (don't do this on published branches).

>   - How do I reorder commits in a branch?              [TODO - mention "git rebase -i"]

git rebase --interactive

>   - How do I cut a branch?                             [TODO]

Define "cut". Possibly "git branch -d" or it's less forgiving
sibling "git branch -D", in case the branch to be removed isn't
fully merged.

>   - How do I replace a branch tip with the contents of another branch?
>                                                        [TODO]

Easily understandable:
git checkout branch
git reset --hard otherbranch

The low-level way:
git update-ref [-m <reason>] [--no-deref] <full-ref-name> <newvalue>

There are more options to git-update-ref. The man-page lists them all.

>   - How do I reconnect a branch to another branch point?
>                                                        [TODO]

I don't quite understand what you mean by "reconnect", but this might
do something along the lines of what you want:
git checkout branch-to-connect-to
git merge branch-to-be-connected

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 23:05 request for documentation about branch surgery Bruno Haible
2009-07-07  2:30 ` Elijah Newren
2009-07-07  3:45   ` Elijah Newren
2009-07-07  9:51   ` Bruno Haible
2009-07-07 10:06     ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2009-07-07  2:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-07 10:13   ` Bruno Haible
2009-07-07 11:03     ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-07-07 15:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-07 18:28 ` Daniel Barkalow

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