On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:52:11AM +0200, Gergely Polonkai wrote: > Hello, > > I have a somewhat clean history: > > M1 - M2 - M3* > \ - H1 - H2 - H3* > > M is branch master, H is a topic branch, each of them point to the > commit marked with the asterisk. Now I want to move master forward > only one commit (others are not ready for publish, and are subject > for a big rebase), so master would point to H1. My idea was to use > git reset --hard H1 on master. I have used git-reset many times to > move a branch back in time, but moving forward is a bit strange in > this situation. Also, I tried git-reset (without --hard) to achieve > my goal, but it - of course - modified my index, too. I was > wondering if reset is the correct thing to do in this case?
while you CAN use `git reset --hard` I would suggest you look at `git merge --ff-only`. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
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