git town detach

git town detach [--dry-run] [-v | --verbose]

The detach command removes the current branch from the stack it is in and makes it a stand-alone top-level branch that ships directly into your main branch.

Consider this stack:

main
 \
  branch-1
   \
*   branch-2
     \
      branch-3

We are on the branch-2 branch. After running git town detach, we end up with with stack:

main
 \
  branch-1
   \
    branch-3
 \
* branch-2

This is useful when a branch in a stack makes changes that are independent from the changes made by other branches in this stack. Detaching such independent branches removes “noise” from your stack, i.e. reduces it to changes that belong together, and allows you to get more of your changes reviewed and shipped concurrently.

Please ensure all affected branches are in sync before running this command, and remove merge commits by compressing.

Options

--dry-run

Use the --dry-run flag to test-drive this command. It prints the Git commands that would be run but doesn’t execute them.

-v
--verbose

The --verbose aka -v flag prints all Git commands run under the hood to determine the repository state.