On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Kyle Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way to create a spinoff branch containing one commit?
To clarify for other readers: I mean resetting the original branch back one commit. The spinoff branch will likely contain more than one commit, but it "takes" only one commit off of the original branch. > > I'm aware that you can use the region to select a number of commits > > for the spinoff branch, but I haven't found a way to select just one > > commit (HEAD). I often make a single commit on a feature branch > > before realizing I should make a separate branch, but I couldn't get > > spinoff to work for me here. > > While I use magit-branch-spinoff often, I've never made use of the > region behavior. Looking into it a bit, it seems that the documentation > and the actual behavior don't match. The docstring says that the > current branch is reset to the commit selected by the endpoint, but the > code uses commit^. If the behavior matched the docstring, you should be > able to get the behavior you're after because the current branch would > be reset to the last commit of the selection. That was my interpretation of the docstring as well, I'm glad my reading isn't at fault. I can't think of a situation where the commit^ behavior is more desirable, but we can have a more in-depth discussion on the issue/PR. > I'll open an issue or PR within the next couple days to discuss this. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "magit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
