Re: Submit/Workflow question

> Suppose that I have created a half-baked patch A suiting my personal
> needs and went on from there, having something like
>
> ...->A->B->...
>
> Now at some point of time I decide that really A should be made fit
> for submission.  Basically, I'd want to do
> git-reset --hard A
> [edit some]
> git-commit --amend -a
> git-format-patch HEAD~1
>
> in order to arrive at a nice submittable patch.  However, I don't want
> to lose B and the following stuff, and the resulting HEAD should
> include the improved of A (it is fine if that needs additional steps,
> and it is fine if it is just HEAD that gets the fixed version, not B).
>
> So how to do this?  Branch at A^, rebase on A, fix the stuff, commit
> with --amend -a, rebase on master, rename the temporary branch to
> master (killing the old master), format and submit the patch?
>
> Or is there some bad thinko in there?  Or is this too complicated?