Re: [PATCH] transplant: move a series of commits to a different parent

Steffen Prohaska, Sun, Jun 24, 2007 09:08:16 +0200:

On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:

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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.

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

No. This one tries to apply the _changes_ between from..to. What I
need is the resulting _content_ of files modified between from..to.

Ach, yes. I should have read your message a bit more closely. There is
a term for that "contents of files", BTW: "repository state".

I believe it's more like git-filter-branch, but I wasn't yet abel to
tell git-filter-branch how to do the job.

I suspect git-filter-branch can be both.