Let's say I'm working in a git workflow where we have main as our production
branch and dev as our development branch. I've opened a feature branch off of
main and made a series of commits. It is at that point that I realize I
should instead be branched off dev. I could open up a new branch off dev
and then cherry-pick those commits. That is messier and more steps than
necessary.
Instead, I can transition the feature branch I'm already working from to a different base.
The git-rebase command supports this
with the --onto flag.
$ git rebase --onto dev main my-feature-branchSpecify the new base branch (dev), the current base (main), and then the
name of the branch you are transitioning (my-feature-branch).