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Rebase a whole tree from one commit to another?

Subject: Rebase a whole tree from one commit to another?

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3 messages between May 15, 2009 and May 16, 2009.

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Dirk Süsserott· May 15, 2009, 19:38 UTC · lore

Hi alltogether.

Let's say I have the following history:

     | | | | branch-c
     | | | |
     | | |/  branch-b
     | | |
     | |/    branch-a
     | |
     |/
     | master

Now I checkout master, do some changes, and commit them to the master branch. Let's call that new-master:

    | new-master
    | | | | | branch-c
    | | | | |
    | | | |/  branch-b
    | | | |
    | | |/    branch-a
    | | |
    | |/
     \| master

I want to rebase my branches a, b, c to the new master. The clumsy way would be:

     git rebase new-master branch-a
     git rebase branch-a   branch-b
     git rebase branch-b   branch-c

The question is: Is there a way to rebase the whole tree (master -> branch-a -> branch-b -> branch-c) from master to new-master with a single command?

Cheers
   -- Dirk

Andreas Ericsson· May 16, 2009, 07:35 UTC · re: Dirk Süsserott · lore

Re: Rebase a whole tree from one commit to another?

Dirk Süsserott wrote:

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> Hi alltogether.
> 
> Let's say I have the following history:
> 
>     | | | | branch-c
>     | | | |
>     | | |/  branch-b
>     | | |
>     | |/    branch-a
>     | |
>     |/
>     | master
> 
> Now I checkout master, do some changes, and commit them to the master 
> branch. Let's call that new-master:
> 
>    | new-master
>    | | | | | branch-c
>    | | | | |
>    | | | |/  branch-b
>    | | | |
>    | | |/    branch-a
>    | | |
>    | |/
>     \| master
> 
> I want to rebase my branches a, b, c to the new master. The clumsy way 
> would be:
> 
>     git rebase new-master branch-a
>     git rebase branch-a   branch-b
>     git rebase branch-b   branch-c
> 
> The question is: Is there a way to rebase the whole tree (master -> 
> branch-a -> branch-b -> branch-c) from master to new-master with a 
> single command?
>

No. You could merge all the branches that forked from master, rebase the merged branch to new-master and then undo the merge-commit though, but that would still mean three commands (and most likely some conflict resolution). Assuming you have (a lot) more than three branches, this might be a way forward for you.

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Clemens Buchacher· May 16, 2009, 13:49 UTC · re: Dirk Süsserott · lore

Re: Rebase a whole tree from one commit to another?

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:38:53PM +0200, Dirk Süsserott wrote:

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>
>     git rebase new-master branch-a
>     git rebase branch-a   branch-b
>     git rebase branch-b   branch-c
>

You probably want something like

	git rebase new-master branch-a
	git rebase --onto branch-a branch-a@{1} branch-b
	git rebase --onto branch-b branch-b@{1} branch-c

instead, because if you have any conflicts during rebase, the rebased commits will no longer be recognized as identical, causing even more conflicts in the following rebases.