[cli] Move a branch to a different stack

[ilyapoz]

I just initialized a gitbutler workspace from a linear history already containing "stacked" branches.

Not all of the branches are actually dependent on each other. I want to separate some of them into separate stacks to prepare independent PR. I can't seem to find the right cli command to do this.Is there one? What am I missing?

[Byron]

Thanks for asking!

At this time, there is no feature that would allow moving branch segments between lanes, but it's actively worked on. When the PR merges it won't be available in the GUI though, only with the CLI. but that might already be helpful to you.

I hope that helps.

[ilyapoz]

Thank you for the reply, this was very unobvious, because on the outset it looks like the basic offering of gitbutler even from presentations on conferences.

Can you provide more details about this? Am I getting this correctly that it was possible to move only branches that were created as independent in gitbutler? What about if I created a branch it gitbutler, but later moved into the same stack? What if it eventually became dependent (by having conflicts I guess) and then I made it independent again?

[Byron]

What I tried to say above is that moving segments in various ways should be enabled by the PR that is linked above. For now, one can workaround this by dragging and dropping individual commits to temporary branches, and the rename branches accordingly.
GitButler can only change the order of whole lanes, but not segments right now.