Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] doc: git-rebase: move --onto explanation down

From: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Date: Aug 19, 2025, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID: <106c4a6c-9239-4c67-8bed-5ec2c0987f21@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4iu4k18z.fsf@gitster.g>

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>> The existing
>> examples are all good reasons why one might want to use "--onto" so
>> I'm slightly wary of replacing them with a single example in the
>> description.
>
> Then perhaps we should find a better place to put it.  The section
> on advanced topics notes are mostly about operations using sequencer
> machinery, except for the onto section.  Perhaps immediately after
> the apply/merge comparison?

I'm happy to move it anywhere: I couldn't figure out how the sections were meant to be organized (I didn't know that "operations about sequencer machinery" was meant to be a theme) so I chose where to put it pretty arbitrarily.

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