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Re: rebase


From: Da Zheng
Subject: Re: rebase
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:46:42 +0800
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Hi,

olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:52:16AM +0800, Da Zheng wrote:
> 
>> However, the problem is that the code of the driver was checked in to
>> my Hurd git repository and there are many irrelevant commits in the
>> history of the branch for developing the user-level driver because I
>> created the branch from the latest revision in the repository at that
>> moment. I really should have created the branch based on the root
>> commit of the repository:-(
>>
>> Now I only want to check in the pcnet32 driver. I thought that if I
>> generated patches of developing the driver and somehow applied them to
>> the incubator repository, I could keep the development history. But I
>> didn't manage to do it. I guess there should be no automatic way to do
>> it. I have to apply one patch and check in the change manually one by
>> one.
> 
> If I understand correctly what you want to do, this shouldn't actually
> be too hard... Just create a new branch for the driver from your current
> HEAD, and rebase it to include only the relevant commits -- either using
> rebase with --onto, or rebase -i. (The latter doesn't require much
> understanding of how git works -- which, depending on the situation, can
> be considered either an advantage or a disadvantage :-) )
> 
> Alternatively you could create a patch series containing the relevant
> commits with git format-patch, and then apply them with git am to a new
> branch created from origin/master. (rebase actually does more or less
> the same automatically...)

git-am is the command I was looking for. I generated a series of patches, but 
didn't know how to patch them to a branch in the incubator repository. Thanks.

Zheng Da




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