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Re: [BUG] - git rebase -i performs rebase when it shouldn't?

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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Apr 11, 2010, 17:54 UTC
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<201004111954.38156.j6t@kdbg.org>
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<20100411101526.GA20484@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Sonntag, 11. April 2010, Jeff King wrote:
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> Good point. Originally, we did the rebase directly on the branch, though
> I'm not sure if we did "checkout $branch && reset $onto" or "branch -f
> $branch $onto && checkout $branch". These days we operate on a detached
> HEAD, and we seem to "checkout $onto^0", which should do the
> optimization you mention.

But before this "checkout $onto^0" happens, some (all?) variants still do "checkout topic && rev-list upstream..HEAD" instead of just "rev-list upstream..topic".

-- Hannes
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  1. Eugene SajineApr 9, 2010
  2. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2010
  4. Jeff KingApr 10, 2010
  5. Johannes SixtApr 10, 2010
  6. Jeff KingApr 11, 2010
  7. Johannes SixtApr 11, 2010
  8. Jeff KingApr 12, 2010
  9. Michal VitecekApr 12, 2010
  10. Johannes SixtApr 12, 2010
  11. Eugene SajineApr 10, 2010
  12. Jeff KingApr 11, 2010
  13. Eugene SajineApr 11, 2010
  14. Eugene SajineApr 12, 2010
  15. Johannes SixtApr 12, 2010
  16. Eugene SajineApr 12, 2010
  17. Johannes SixtApr 12, 2010
  18. Eugene SajineApr 13, 2010
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