Copy changes from one branch to another
GitGit Problem Overview
I have a branch named BranchA
from master
. I have some changes in BranchA
(I am not going to merge changes from BranchA
to master
).
Now I have created another branch from master
named BranchB
.
How can I copy the changes from BranchA
to BranchB
?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
git checkout BranchB
git merge BranchA
This is all if you intend to not merge your changes back to master. Generally it is a good practice to merge all your changes back to master, and create new branches off of that.
Also, after the merge command, you will have some conflicts, which you will have to edit manually and fix.
Make sure you are in the branch where you want to copy all the changes to. git merge
will take the branch you specify and merge it with the branch you are currently in.
Solution 2 - Git
Instead of merge, as others suggested, you can rebase one branch onto another:
git checkout BranchB
git rebase BranchA
This takes BranchB
and rebases it onto BranchA
, which effectively looks like BranchB
was branched from BranchA
, not master
.
Solution 3 - Git
This is 2 step process
- git checkout BranchB ( destination branch is BranchB, so we need the head on this branch)
- git merge BranchA (it will merge BranchB with BranchA. Here you have merged code in branch B)
If you want to push your branch code to remote repo then do
- git push origin master (it will push your BranchB code to remote repo)
Solution 4 - Git
Copy content of BranchA into BranchB
git checkout BranchA
git pull origin BranchB
git push -u origin BranchA
Solution 5 - Git
For me the solution was - stash the current changes in the branch and then switch branches and then apply that stash to that branch.
Solution 6 - Git
Merge the changes from BranchA to BranchB. When you are on BranchB execute git merge BranchA
Solution 7 - Git
If you are using tortoise git.
please follow the below steps.
- Checkout
BranchB
- Open project folder, go to
TortoiseGit --> Fetch
- In the pull screen, Change the remote branch
BranchA
and click ok. - Then right-click again, go to
TortoiseGit --> Push
.
Now your changes moved from BranchA to BranchB
Solution 8 - Git
Simplified solution using git switch
if you have git 2.23 or above you can use git switch
command to do the same since git checkout
command used for a lot of things which is confusing sometime
// This command will switch(go) to BranchB
// use flag -c if you haven't created this branch yet
git switch BranchB
// git merge combines sequences of commits from BranchA to the
// current branch (which is BranchB)
git merge BranchA