Git: created new branch from a wrong branch

Question

I usually create new branch from develop

git checkout -b new-feature develop

then after the last commit I merge back to develop

git checkout develop
git merge new-feature

but this time I created new-feature2 brach from new-feature and now I cannot merge to develop.

Is there a way to switch new-feature2's parent to develop?

(The files I worked on were the same version as in develop so this should not require merging.)

Answer 1

Have you seen interactive rebase?

git rebase -i develop

is a pretty simple solution–it'll show all your commits from that branch. Just delete the "pick" lines from the unwanted branch.

Answer 2

what about creating a patch, checkout to the develop branch and apply the patch?

git checkout new-feature2

git format-patch new-feature

git checkout develop

git am name-of-the-patch.patch

Answer 3

You could also use git diff and git apply:

git diff new-feature..new-feature2 | git apply -