Re: Moving a branch to a different node

Mike Solomon [off-list ref] writes:

Hey git users,
    I am working on a project where I proceeded by the following steps:

starting from master...
1) create branch foo
2) work in foo, make some commits, then a patch named Foo
3) create a branch bar while in foo
4) work in bar, make some commits, then a patch named Bar

git show-branch gives me

! [master] Hello
 * [foo] Foo
  ! [bar] Bar

I would like to make bar split off of master instead of foo so that I can
format a patch that can be applied to master (Bar) without having to first
apply Foo.  Is there a way to do that?

IIUC you want to rebase the commits in bar that are not in foo onto
master.

$ git rebase --onto master foo bar

Andreas.

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