I often find myself pursuing a development branch that I'm pushing out
to a public repo, and then wanting to go back a few commits and start
the end of the branch anew.
o-o-o-o origin/dev
\
o-o-o dev
Of course then I want to push dev and move origin/dev to refer to it.
So I delete and recreate origin/dev. That's essentially like
rebasing, and all the advice says "don't do it." How bad is that,
really, if it's my own development branch?
If I try to avoid doing that I guess I have to "merge" with the remote
branch but discard all its changes?
o-o-o-o - - - -o origin/dev dev
\ /
o-o-o
Is there a shortcut for that? It would be nice if Git had a way to
note that sort of "false parentage" (the dotted line above)
explicitly; it's not really there logically; it just helps the
workflows to move along smoothly.
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