From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:26:58 GMT
Subject: Re: multiple-commit cherry-pick?
Message-ID: <20081106122658.GB4192@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <buozlkd6oh1.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>

On 2008.11.06 21:14:18 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:
> > git reset --hard C
> > git rebase --onto ORIG_HEAD A^
> 
> Is that safe...?  Doesn't git-rebase also set ORIG_HEAD?

One of the first things rebase does is validating and resolving its
arguments. And that's happening before any actions that would touch
ORIG_HEAD. Though I'm not sure if it's always been like that.

Björn