Re: Is rebase always destructive?

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Dec 1, 2008, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID: <200812012119.03372.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <slrngj8884.2srb.csaba-ml@beastie.creo.hu>

måndag 01 december 2008 18:37:43 skrev Csaba Henk:

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> On 2008-12-01, Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:41:39AM +0000, Csaba Henk wrote:
> >> I can't see any option for rebase which would yield this cp-like
> >> behaviour. Am I missing something?
> >
> > How about this:
> >
> > git checkout topic
> > git branch keepme
> > git rebase master
> 
> OK, thanks guys, now I'm enlightened (a little bit more than before).

And if you forgot to create the keepme branch you can access the previous version using the topic@{1} or topic@{'1 hour ago'} etc. This uses the reflog that tracks all "versions" of your branch. Keeping gitk running is nice way to see previous versions (press F5 after rebase).

-- robin