How to put each past commit on a separate branch of its own?

Question

So I want to go from this state:

A - B - C - D - E

to this state:

A (feature/1 branch)
B (feature/2 branch)
C (feature/3 branch)
D (feature/4 branch)
E * master

How do I do this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Let P be the parent of A. As I understand, you want each of these commits to have P as its parent. For each commit, create a branch there, and then rebase it by "cutting" it off from its current parent and "pasting" it onto P:

git checkout -b feature/2 B
git rebase HEAD~1 --onto P

git checkout -b feature/3 C
git rebase HEAD~1 --onto P

and so on. A already has P as its parent, so you just need git branch feature/1 A to create the branch.