Git - Move feature branch ancestor pointer to latest commit on Master

Question

I'm following a workflow similar to the one describe by Scott Chacon in his Pro Git book and illustrated in 3.2 Git Branching .

I have created a branch (following along from Scott's example) iss53 . I've done work on that branch, but then need to switch gears and tackle a new issue. I create branch hotfix . Commits are added to hotfix and then merged back into master :

In Scott's example he doesn't need to take the commit from hotfix (C4) and apply it to iss53 , but say I do.

How can I update my feature branch so that it appears to have been branched from a later commit?

Effectively, I want to update iss53 so that it looks like this:

Update:

After researching this further, this article was what I was looking for to explain merging vs rebaseing: http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2012/08/21/merge-or-rebase/

Answer 1

Use rebase which is explained after few pages in the same book.

$ git checkout iss53
$ git rebase master

Note that, rebase should be avoided if branch iss53 is pushed to a remote that other people can access .