I have changes in a feature branch, that I'd like to transfer over to the develop branch commit-by-commit as if I initially created them on develop in the first place, by hand.
Constraints:
I tried to use format-patch
and git am
/ git apply
for that, but it fails at merging.
I created a patch file containing several patches using
git format-patch [COMMIT ID] --stdout > ~/my.patch
Applying the patch results in errors
$ git am --3way --ignore-whitespace ~/my.patch
Applying: commit message 1
Applying: commit message 2
Applying: commit message 3
Applying: commit message 4
Applying: commit message 5
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
M app/myfile1.py
M app/myfile2.py
M tests/test_myfile1.py
error: patch failed: app/myfile1.py:61
error: app/myfile1.py: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: app/myfile3.py:58
error: app/myfile3.py: patch does not apply
error: Did you hand edit your patch?
It does not apply to blobs recorded in its index.
Patch failed at 0005 Review
hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch=diff' to see the failed patch
When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".
(I did not touch the patch file after creation)
Trying to manually resolve conflicts says there is no conflict:
git mergetool
No files need merging
The following works fine in regard of merging/conflict solving, but it crushes all commits into one single commit:
git checkout feature
git diff [COMMIT ID] > ~/my.patch
git checkout develop
git apply --3way ~/my.patch```
If you want to reapply a series of commits that are already merged (and reverted) into the current branch, you need to trick git into thinking that the commits have never been merged in the first place... it's not that hard, really, just requires a little bit more work than usual. Let's say that it is a series of 4 commits one after the other, the last one being X
.... then you could do this:
git checkout X~4 # go back to the commit _before_ the 4 commits we want to trick git into believing are brand new
git cherry-pick HEAD..X # reapply the 4 commits, no changes in them... but these are new commits to git
# let's bring them over to develop
git rebase --onto develop HEAD~4 HEAD
And you got your commits on top of develop