Git, rebasing an incorrectly branched branch

Question

git clone blah
git checkout -b development
git checkout -b bug581
hack hack
git checkout -b bug588
hack hack

oh wait, bug 588 should sprout from development, not 581.

git rebase --onto development bug581 bug588

gives me:

Cannot rebase: You have unstaged changes.
Please commit or stash them.

err, but i dont? git status shows working directory is clean. so lets stash just for giggles.

git stash
git rebase --onto development bug581 bug588

ok now it works, but its pulling the history of bug 581 and 588, i just want the history of 588, not what was in 581.

Answer 1

I'm on a mac, and this obscure config change seemed to fix all my woes regarding unstaged changes when there were none.

git config --global core.trustctime false

I think it's to do with differences between windows file times, linux file times and mac file times. who knows, feel free to comment if you do.

Answer 2

Do you have auto rebase turned on?

look in your ~/.gitconfig or .git/config for

[branch "master"]
  rebase = true

or

[branch]
  autosetuprebase = always

Answer 3

第二次执行“hack hack”，是您的非分段更改发生的位置。