From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 07:57:18 GMT
Subject: Re: switching upstream tips
Message-ID: <4A0A7D5E.1010909@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A0A7BA1.4030500@gmail.com>

Ittay Dror schrieb:
> Alex Riesen wrote:
>> 2009/5/13 Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com>:
>>>> Alex Riesen wrote:
>>>>> * Reorder my history so that my commits are on top of the tip of
>>>>> the old
>>>>> upstream repository.
>>>>>         
>>>> Look at "git rebase -i" (interactive rebase)
>>>>       
>>> well, i was hoping for something more automatic. git rebase will list
>>> all
>>> commits without author, so i'll have to manually figure which of them is
>>> mine from the commend and reorder
>>>     
>>
>> git rebase will list only commits not on upstream (simplified).
>> Has nothing to do with author being absent.
>>   
> tried git rebase, this is what i get:
>> git rebase -i upstream master
> fatal: Needed a single revision
> Invalid base

I guess it should have been

   git rebase -i --onto new-upstream old-upstream master

That is, you take commits old-upstream..master and transplant them onto
new-upstream.

-- Hannes