The reverse operation of specialization is called promotion. In r3, you promote templates using the r3 promote template command. Using the sample structure we've created so for, suppose you decided to specialize the navigation template from the French Canadian wine product, but then realized you could use it for all Canadian products. That is, suppose you first did this:
$ r3 template specialize wine/ca/index.html navigation.ros 0 Template specialised from generic_product/generic_intl/index.html to wine/ca/index.html 0 wine/ca/index.html navigation.ros 1 wine/ca/generic 2 wine/us/index.html 3 wine/us/generic 4 wine/generic_intl/index.html 5 wine/generic_intl/generic 6 cookery/ca/index.html 7 cookery/ca/generic 8 cookery/us/index.html 9 cookery/us/generic 10 cookery/generic_intl/index.html 11 cookery/generic_intl/generic 12 generic_product/ca/index.html 13 generic_product/ca/generic 14 generic_product/us/index.html 15 generic_product/us/generic 16 generic_product/generic_intl/index.html navigation.ros 17 generic_product/generic_intl/generic
To push it back up the inheritance chain, then you might do this:
$ r3 template promote wine/ca/index.html navigation.ros 13 Template promoted from wine/ca/index.html to generic_product/ca/generic 0 wine/ca/index.html 1 wine/ca/generic 2 wine/us/index.html 3 wine/us/generic 4 wine/generic_intl/index.html 5 wine/generic_intl/generic 6 cookery/ca/index.html 7 cookery/ca/generic 8 cookery/us/index.html 9 cookery/us/generic 10 cookery/generic_intl/index.html 11 cookery/generic_intl/generic 12 generic_product/ca/index.html 13 generic_product/ca/generic navigation.ros 14 generic_product/us/index.html 15 generic_product/us/generic 16 generic_product/generic_intl/index.html navigation.ros 17 generic_product/generic_intl/generic
Unlike the template specialize command, the template promote command is a move operation.