From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:54:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] - git rebase -i performs rebase when it shouldn't?
Message-ID: <201004111954.38156.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100411101526.GA20484@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sonntag, 11. April 2010, Jeff King wrote:
> 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