Re: Editing the root commit

From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2012, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20120620193922.GB3192@arachsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120620192938.GC31520@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But if the first commit is deleted (or reordered), then it is not
> appropriate to detach to the root; we must detach to the first picked
> commit, which we can only do after we see the final instruction sheet.

It's worse than that isn't it? If you have

  A -- B -- C

and the sheet says drop A, pick B, pick C, you can't detach to B. You want the commit B as a root (i.e. with no parent), not the commit B with parent A. You need to have the patch from A to B replayed as the first commit on an empty branch (only without the branch).

Cheers,

Chris.