git is live

[Pedro Alves]

On 10/28/2013 10:35 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:

> I got this far with no problems (thanks!), but my old branches don't
> seem to have any common commits with the new binutils-gdb/master. Are
> you doing the rebase with an explicit merge-base (e.g., "git branch
> new-branch binutils-gdb/master;  git rebase --onto new-branch
> old-master old-branch")? Or should "git rebase binutils-gdb/master
> old-branch" work? (I'm hesitant to try that.)

Yeah, as others have said, use "git rebase --onto new-branch".

I actually use stgit myself, so I do "stg rebase $BRANCH", which
rebases the patch series (applied or not) on top of any
branch (IOW, it already does the equivalent of --onto) so
this question doesn't even arise for me.

-- 
Pedro Alves