How to rebase a local repository from another local repository

Question

I have two directories on same machine. One of them has committed changes that I want to propagate to the other in the same branch.

Here is latest commit seen from git log on the "source" directory:

commit ef643298f6c354705eba866d42d53aff0d74d911
Author: javadba <javadba@email.org>
Date:   Wed Jun 8 15:02:25 2016 -0700

    Added binary level backward compatibility to Spark 1.X.

Doing a pull from the second directory - as recommended here Propagating changes from a local repository to another local repository - does not do anything:

$git pull origin spark20
From https://github.com/myuser/myrepo
 * branch            spark20    -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

We can see it has older commit as last entry in git log:

commit fbf05bbcdb69beb200bdedf182363b145ee4a3d1
Author: javadba <javadba@email.org>
Date:   Wed Jun 8 13:19:41 2016 -0700

    Added source level backward compatibility to Spark 1.X

So then how to allow the second directory to see the locally committed changes in the first one?

You will be able to pull changes in the second directory if you set the other one as the origin. — Tomasz Kowalczyk, Jun 08 '16 at 22:16
@TomaszKowalczyk Thanks. please create answer and following link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10603671/git-how-to-add-a-local-repo-and-treat-it-as-a-remote-one — WestCoastProjects, Jun 08 '16 at 22:17
As per SO rules I should vote for duplicate, I hope you have nothing against that, really glad that my comment helped you. — Tomasz Kowalczyk, Jun 08 '16 at 22:19
It isn't an exact duplicate, because you don't need to set it as a remote, you just need to pull it by path instead of name. `git pull :` — Bryce Drew, Jun 08 '16 at 22:30
@BryceDrew That is a different approach . feel free to answer. — WestCoastProjects, Jun 08 '16 at 22:31

How to rebase a local repository from another local repository

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