From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:43:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] gitweb: Optional grouping of projects by category
Message-ID: <7vy6yw7osr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87ljuw22q1.wl%seb@cine7.net>

Sébastien Cevey <seb@cine7.net> writes:

> [1] OT: I didn't find a simple command to do this:
>
>     $ git diff ..the-end-state > finish.patch
>     $ patch -p1 < finish.patch
>     $ git commit -a -s
>
>     (where the original HEAD and the-end-state have an older MRCA with
>      rewritten history inbetween, and I don't want to apply that
>      history and solve conflicts, just "get my tree to the end state".)
>
>     Any tip?

$ git read-tree -m -u the-end-state
$ git commit -a -s