From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:39:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Warn user about known Git Rebase bug?!
Message-ID: <20170322223902.GG26108@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <C45FE2B3-E4B5-4988-85B4-3CCB41C9ACC3@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider wrote:

> 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