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  • Sounds like you want git rebase --onto. See the docs, there's an example: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase.html [kernel.org]

    • Well, this seems like the right command, and from the documentation this should be working. I'm executing:

      git rebase --onto stage local work

      My understanding is this should select all of the commits that are in work but not in local, and then apply them all to stage. git crunches some numbers or something, even ran garbage collection, seems to do something ... but my "stage" branch is left completely unchanged, as far as I can tell.

      I tried using the -i (interactive) option to git-rebase, and I could

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

      • I haven’t actually tried this, but going by the documentation, it seems like your situation is as in the git-rebase --onto master topicA topicB example in the docs. So if I understand correctly, your stage branch would indeed remain untouched – however, after rebasing, the work branch would be rooted on stage instead of local.

        To verify, switch to work and check the log.

        • Hey, you're correct! That's what it did!

          I'm still not sure how I was misunderstanding the docs. But, I think I can use this. I can completely drop the concept of the stage branch, I think, and just rebase work branches to master when I am ready to commit them.

          I think. Still a little scared. And I'm even more scared that the next thought I had was, "At least I still have CVS to tell me what's changed or not; that should make me feel secure." Seriously. And then I thought, "Yeah, right."

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          J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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