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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt index c2d4a91c7c..74a1c0c4ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> +From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Subject: Re: sending changesets from the middle of a git tree @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes: > Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:57:13AM CEST, I got a letter > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that... >> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes: ->> ->> > Junio, maybe you want to talk about how you move patches from your "pu" +>> +>> > Junio, maybe you want to talk about how you move patches from your "pu" >> > branch to the real branches. ->> +>> > Actually, wouldn't this be also precisely for what StGIT is intended to? Exactly my feeling. I was sort of waiting for Catalin to speak @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the kind of task StGIT is designed to do. I just have done a simpler one, this time using only the core GIT tools. -I had a handful commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I +I had a handful of commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I wanted to add some documentation bypassing my usual habit of placing new things in pu first. At the beginning, the commit ancestry graph looked like this: @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ prepare #2 and #3 for e-mail submission. $ git format-patch master^^ master -This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.txt and 0002-XXXX.txt. Send +This creates two files, 0001-XXXX.patch and 0002-XXXX.patch. Send them out "To: " your project maintainer and "Cc: " your mailing list. You could use contributed script git-send-email if your host has necessary perl modules for this, but your usual @@ -118,13 +118,13 @@ up your changes, along with other changes. where *your "master" head upstream --> #1 --> #2 --> #3 - used \ + used \ to be \--> #A --> #2' --> #3' --> #B --> #C *upstream head The two commits #2' and #3' in the above picture record the same changes your e-mail submission for #2 and #3 contained, but -probably with the new sign-off line added by the upsteam +probably with the new sign-off line added by the upstream maintainer and definitely with different committer and ancestry information, they are different objects from #2 and #3 commits. @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ You fetch from upstream, but not merge. $ git fetch upstream This leaves the updated upstream head in .git/FETCH_HEAD but -does not touch your .git/HEAD nor .git/refs/heads/master. +does not touch your .git/HEAD nor .git/refs/heads/master. You run "git rebase" now. $ git rebase FETCH_HEAD master @@ -161,5 +161,3 @@ the #1' commit. To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - - |