From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:04:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] transplant: move a series of commits to a different parent
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706231404hc8b4bc4xd5bc51c733d8ea69@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <11826268772950-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

On 6/23/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> 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.
>
> Warning: this is just a quick hack to solve _my_ problem.
> - No error checking is performed.
> - Removal of files is not handled.
> - Whitespace in filename is not handled.
> - The index is left in dirty state.
> - No branch is created for the result.
> - The script is not integrated with git's shell utilities.

# detached head
git checkout $(git rev-parse onto) && git format-patch --stdout
--full-index from..to|git am -3