#+TITLE: Git Note
#+AUTHOR: Peng Li
#+EMAIL: seudut@gmail.com
#+DATE: 2016-12-18

* Git Note
** Update an forked repo on  Github
See [[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7244321/how-do-i-update-a-github-forked-repository]]
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output replace
  # Add the remote, called it "upstream", which is the original repo forked

  git remote add upstream https://github.com/whoever/whatever.git

  # Fetch upstream

  git fetch upstream

  # switch to master

  git checkout master

  # rebase all commit in upstream

  git rebase upstream/master

  # push the new commit

  git push origin master
#+END_SRC

** Move branch pointer to commit
Ususally, we create a branch for some bug fix. If it is a regress issue, we oftern need to rollback to some commit to fix the 
bad commit. In this case, we need to move the branch to another commit
[[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5471174/git-move-branch-pointer-to-different-commit-without-checkout]]

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output replace
  git branch -f branch-name COMMIT
#+END_SRC