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Re: Warn user about known Git Rebase bug?!

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 22, 2017, 22:39 UTC
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Lars Schneider wrote:
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> we rebased a branch using "--preserve-merges --interactive" and were 
> surprised that the operation reported success although it silently 
> omitted commits (Git 2.12 on Windows). A little search revealed that 
> these are likely known bugs [1]. Would it make sense to print an 
> appropriate warning message if a user runs rebase with 
> "--preserve-merges --interactive"?
Sounds like a good idea.  Care to suggest a patch?

Thanks, Jonathan

> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_bugs
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  1. Lars SchneiderMar 22, 2017
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