From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:16:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] transplant: move a series of commits to a different parent
Message-ID: <467F6BB0.4C7F041E@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <9C4338DC-0C4A-4981-9EC9-2417513F629D@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> 
> On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> >> git-transplant.sh <onto> <from> <to>
> >>
> >> transplant starts with the contents of <onto> and puts on top of
> >> it the contents of files if they are touched by the series of
> >> commits <from>..<to>.  If a commit touches a file the content of
> >> this file is taken as it is in the commit. No merging is
> >> performed. Original authors, commiters, and commit messages are
> >> preserved.
> >>
> > [...]
> > # detached head
> > git checkout $(git rev-parse onto) && git format-patch --stdout
> > --full-index from..to|git am -3
> 
> No. This one tries to apply the _changes_ between from..to. What I
> need is the resulting _content_ of files modified between from..to.

Install a graft that points the parent of "from" to "onto", then run
git-filter-branch. Like so:

 $ echo "$(git-rev-parse from^0) $(git-rev-parse onto^0)" \
        > .git/info/grafts
 $ git-filter-branch new-to onto..to

(no filters necessary).

-- Hannes