Moving Changes to Feature Branches After-the-Fact in Mercurial
At my workplace we use Mercurial. We don’t usually work in feature-branches, but in the default branch instead. This is usually not problematic, but I keep running into the following situation: I started working on feature A (on the default branch), when suddenly I am forced to work on (and ship) feature B instead, for whatever reason. When that happens, I usually say to myself “God damn it! I wish I worked on A in a branch to begin with!”.
Enter hg rebase. Here’s what you do.
