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Re: rebase -i: learn to rebase root commit

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Dec 29, 2008, 21:49 UTC
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Thomas Rast wrote:
> Teach git-rebase -i a new option --root, which instructs it to rebase
> the entire history leading up to <branch>.  This is mainly for
> symmetry with ordinary git-rebase; it cannot be used to edit the root
> commit in-place (it requires --onto).

Actually, I forgot the "rebase -i -p" code path, which dies if --root is used with -p. Apologies.

So for now, consider this broken and RFC: is there any sensible use/interpretation of -p --root that I'm missing? Or should it just disallow this combination?

[I also seem to manage to shoot myself with format-patch & topgit every time, no matter how trivial the issue.]

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 5 of 27 in “rebase --root”
  1. 0/3 rebase --rootThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  2. rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  3. rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  4. rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast, Dec 29, 2008
  5. Thomas RastDec 29, 2008
  6. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 29, 2008
  7. Thomas RastDec 30, 2008
  8. 1/3 rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 30, 2008
  9. 2/3 rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Dec 30, 2008
  10. 3/3 rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast, Dec 30, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 1, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2009
  13. Thomas RastJan 2, 2009
  14. 1/4 rebase -i: execute hook only after argument checkingThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  15. 2/4 rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  16. 3/4 rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  17. 4/4 rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  18. 3/4 rebase -i: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  19. 2/4 rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2009
  21. rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 2, 2009
  22. rebase: learn to rebase root commitThomas Rast, Jan 5, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2009
  25. Thomas RastJan 2, 2009
  26. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2009
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2008

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