Mike Solomon <mikesol@xxxxxxx> 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html