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Moving commits from one branch to another

Subject: Moving commits from one branch to another

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5 messages between Jan 23, 2013 and Jan 23, 2013.

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Stefan Schulze· Jan 23, 2013, 12:04 UTC · lore

Hi,

my team uses a central git-repo since >1500 commits and now we have to sync (only one-way is necessary for now) our repository every three weeks with an external svn-repo. I created the new base-directory (incl. trunk/tags/branches) in svn and added it to my local repo using git svn init && git fetch. Now I have two branches in my local repository (master and "svnbranch") and cherry-picked the very first commit from master to svnbranch (it was probably not necessary), tagged this commit as "publishedToSvn". Now I want to add all commits publishedToSvn..master onto svnbranch. I didn't managed to succeed using git-rebase (probably because of the missing common commits?) and using git grafts / filter-branch modifies my already published master.

Is there any way to move/copy commits from one branch to another without a common base-commit and without a forced push of master?

Thanks in advance,
  Stefan Schulze

John Keeping· Jan 23, 2013, 12:12 UTC · re: Stefan Schulze · lore

Re: Moving commits from one branch to another

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:04:03PM +0100, Stefan Schulze wrote:

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> my team uses a central git-repo since >1500 commits and now we have to sync
> (only one-way is necessary for now) our repository every three weeks with an
> external svn-repo.
> I created the new base-directory (incl. trunk/tags/branches) in svn and
> added it to my local repo using git svn init && git fetch.
> Now I have two branches in my local repository (master and "svnbranch") and
> cherry-picked the very first commit from master to svnbranch (it was
> probably not necessary), tagged this commit as "publishedToSvn". Now I want
> to add all commits publishedToSvn..master onto svnbranch. I didn't managed
> to succeed using git-rebase (probably because of the missing common
> commits?) and using git grafts / filter-branch modifies my already published
> master.
> 
> Is there any way to move/copy commits from one branch to another without a
> common base-commit and without a forced push of master?

Did you try "git rebase" with "--onto"? You probably want something like this:

    git rebase --onto svnbranch publishedToSvn master

John

Stefan Schulze· Jan 23, 2013, 14:13 UTC · re: John Keeping · lore

AW: Moving commits from one branch to another

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> > Is there any way to move/copy commits from one branch to another
> > without a common base-commit and without a forced push of master?
>
> Did you try "git rebase" with "--onto"?  You probably want something
> like this:
> 
>     git rebase --onto svnbranch publishedToSvn master

I already tried this some days ago, but wasn't sure about the result. The resulting history looks exactly what I expected, but all the commits are on master after executing this commands and svnbranch only contains the original two commits (svn-commit creating the root directory and the cherry-picked commit from master)

Does the current branch matter if I call git-rebase with the <branch>-argument?

John Keeping· Jan 23, 2013, 14:49 UTC · re: Stefan Schulze · lore

Re: Moving commits from one branch to another

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:13:19PM +0100, Stefan Schulze wrote:

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> > > Is there any way to move/copy commits from one branch to another
> > > without a common base-commit and without a forced push of master?
> >
> > Did you try "git rebase" with "--onto"?  You probably want something
> > like this:
> > 
> >     git rebase --onto svnbranch publishedToSvn master
> 
> I already tried this some days ago, but wasn't sure about the result. The
> resulting history looks exactly what I expected, but all the commits are on
> master after executing this commands and svnbranch only contains the
> original two commits (svn-commit creating the root directory and the
> cherry-picked commit from master)

Ah, I missed that you wanted to update svnbranch. I don't think there's a single command that will do that, but this should work:

    git rebase --onto svnbranch publishedToSvn master^0
    git checkout -B svnbranch HEAD

This uses a detached head to avoid modifying the wrong branch and then updates "svnbranch" to point at that after the rebase.

> Does the current branch matter if I call git-rebase with the
> <branch>-argument?

No it will checkout that branch first.

John

Schulze, Stefan· Jan 23, 2013, 15:44 UTC · re: John Keeping · lore

AW: Moving commits from one branch to another

> git rebase --onto svnbranch publishedToSvn master^0
> git checkout -B svnbranch HEAD

Great! This does exactly what I want!

Thanks for your support,
  Stefan Schulze

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