-From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree
> Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:57:13AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
->>
->> > Junio, maybe you want to talk about how you move patches from your "pu"
+>>
+>> > Junio, maybe you want to talk about how you move patches from your "pu"
>> > branch to the real branches.
->>
+>>
> Actually, wouldn't this be also precisely for what StGIT is intended to?
Exactly my feeling. I was sort of waiting for Catalin to speak
I just have done a simpler one, this time using only the core
GIT tools.
-I had a handful commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
+I had a handful of commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
wanted to add some documentation bypassing my usual habit of
placing new things in pu first. At the beginning, the commit
ancestry graph looked like this:
where *your "master" head
upstream --> #1 --> #2 --> #3
- used \
+ used \
to be \--> #A --> #2' --> #3' --> #B --> #C
*upstream head
$ git fetch upstream
This leaves the updated upstream head in .git/FETCH_HEAD but
-does not touch your .git/HEAD nor .git/refs/heads/master.
+does not touch your .git/HEAD nor .git/refs/heads/master.
You run "git rebase" now.
$ git rebase FETCH_HEAD master
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