Re: RFC: Renaming "git rebase --onto"

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2015, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20150330210319.GC22844@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <05D9209E-FAA2-44C8-9B98-B00997AF5779@JonathonMah.com>

Jonathon Mah wrote:

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> Personally, I understand “git-rebase --onto new-base old-base” as
> meaning “rebase from old-base to new-base”. Some prepositions that
> might make this clearer:
>
> $ git rebase --from old-base new-base  # “Rebase HEAD onto new-base, from old-base"

Would having an option name for the old-base argument help?

For example:

	git rebase --old-base=<old-base> --onto=<new-base> <branch>

Thanks, Jonathan