From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:15:11 GMT
Subject: Re: rebase --root conflicts with --committer-date-is-author-date
Message-ID: <43BA47EB-FA7B-4D33-8ECA-F8051B16E78E@arachsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwq1h50na.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Chris, do you remember if there was a reason why it was a bad idea
> to teach the normal rebase codepath to handle "--root"?  I think we
> would have needed to allow "am" to apply a creation patch and start
> a new history on an unborn branch in order to do so, but I am not
> sure if there was a valid reason why such a change to "am" would
> have been a bad idea.

Hi. It's a long time ago, but I don't remember any reason and it feels
sensible that am should be able to create an unborn branch in the same way
interactive rebase can.

I suspect I had done the necessary work for rebase -i but not for am, and
incorrectly assumed that interactive rebase was in any case a superset of
non-interactive.

Best wishes,

Chris.