Editing the order of branches in a stack

With the Graphite CLI, you can easily modify the dependencies of your branches. After doing so, you'll want to resubmit with gt stack submit to push the changes to remote and update the PR dependencies.

gt upstack onto

You can use gt upstack onto to rebase a branch and all of its recursive children onto a branch of your choice.

• Checkout the branch that you'd like to rebase.

• Run gt upstack onto to open an interactive prompt that allows you to select the new parent of the branch.

• You can also specify the branch yourself with gt upstack onto new_parent

gt downstack edit

If you've created a stack of several branches, you can change the order of the stacked branches by using the command gt downstack edit.

• Checkout the top of the stack you'd like to edit.

• Run gt downstack edit to open an interactive editor which shows each branch in the stack as a line.

• Reorder the branches as desired, keeping in mind that you might need to resolve merge conflicts that arise.

• Save and close the file. This will reorder the branches, first changing the parent pointers, and then performing the necessary restacks. If conflicts occur: resolve them, stage the resolutions, and run gt continue to continue restacking. This is the same pattern you would use when resolving conflicts in a gt upstack onto command.

• After reordering, you can run gt stack submit to create PRs or update the merge-bases of existing PRs.

gt branch create --insert

With --insert, you can create a new branch based on the current branch and automatically rebase the existing children of the current branch onto the new branch. You can use -i for short:

> gt ls

◯ second_branch
◉ first_branch
◯ main

> gt bc inserted_branch -im "inserted"

[inserted_branch a55e6a7] inserted
  1 file changed,1 insertion(+)
  create mode 100644 1,5
Restacked second_branch on inserted_branch

> gt ls

◯ second_branch
◉ inserted_branch
◯ first_branch
◯ main