[RFC] should `git rebase --keep-base` imply `--reapply-cherry-picks` ?

Hello,

I learned today that doing `git rebase --keep-base master` will drop commits that were cherry-picked from master to the current branch. I was simply doing a code clean up on my feature branch (the full command was `git rebase -i --keep-base master`), and this kind of confused me for a moment.

Is this a sane default ? I understand that it is a good default when we are rebasing *on top* of master, but here I'm just doing some squashing and fixup's and I did not want the commit I had cherry-picked from master to disappear (yet). In fact, because it was dropped, it created a modify/delete conflict because in a subsequent commit in my feature branch I'm modifying files that are added in the commit I cherry-picked.

How would a change that made '--reapply-cherry-picks' be the default when using 'keep-base' be received ?

Tangential question: in any case, would it make sense to still add the "dropped because already upstream" commits to the todo list, in the case of an interactive rebase ? (maybe commented out, or listed as 'drop' with some kind of comment saying those are dropped because they appear textually upstream?)

Cheers, Philippe. P.S. I CC'd those who were involved with the 'keep-base' patch or the 'reapply-cherry-picks' patch.