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From: Eric James Michael Ritz <Eric@cybersprocket•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Replacing a Remote Branch
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:14:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C49F83B.4060903@cybersprocket.com> (raw)

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Hello everyone.  I have a question about pushing branches that I hope
a more experienced user could help me with.

Commonly I run into this situation:

  1. I have pushed a topic branch out to a repo where other developers
  on my team push their work until its ready to be merged.

  2. I realized I need to perform some ‘destructive’ action like
  ‘rebase -i’ or amend the last commit to fix a typo in the message.

  3. Then I want to push the changed branch as a replacement.

Currently I deal with this by running

    $ git push origin :foo && git push origin foo

to replace `foo`.  But is there a shorter way to do this?  I thought
that writing something like

    $ git push origin +foo:foo

may have the intended effect, but I still get a rejection due to a
non-fast-forward, so I am likely misunderstanding the purpose of `+`.

If there is any short-cut for this, I would greatly appreciate it.
And if not, writing a simple script is not a huge hassle :)

- --
Eric James Michael Ritz
Cyber Sprocket Labs
(843) 225-3830
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-23 20:14 Eric James Michael Ritz [this message]
2010-07-23 20:48 ` Replacing a Remote Branch Thomas Rast
2010-07-23 20:52   ` Eric James Michael Ritz
2010-07-24  1:17   ` bill lam
2010-07-24 16:03     ` [PATCH 1/2] Document receive.denyDeleteCurrent Thomas Rast
2010-07-24 16:03       ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/git-push: Explain status output in more detail Thomas Rast
2010-07-24 16:07       ` [PATCH v1.1 1/2] Document receive.denyDeleteCurrent Thomas Rast

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