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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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29 Moving Branches

Sometimes you need to move branches around to reorganize them. For example, you have a branch where you’re working on a future version of your software. During the rewrite, your team realizes that the better-widget feature can be released as a minor version of your software instead of being part of the next major version. This is where you can move a branch to make your repository more sane.

You use git rebase --onto to move branches. Like a normal git rebase, Git replays the commits from one branch against another. The difference is that Git takes the branch you’re rebasing, and instead of replaying it against another branch, it moves it to an entirely different one.

The syntax is more verbose than a simple git rebase ...

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