Re: [PATCH 1/3] Prepare for non-interactive merge-preserving rebase

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> First of all, thanks for the work!
> 
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:30:09PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> It requires a bit of testing though. All the t/t34* tests pass with
>> all the patches applied, and some manual tries worked just fine too,
>> but if you wanna give it a twirl where you work, that'd be great.
> Unfortunately in my example workflow[1] posted earlier today your
> patch series does not work in the way I would like it to behave.
> 
> The following DAG is created by the commands below:
> 
>   -A---B      master
>     \
>      C---M    topic
>       \ /
>        D
> 
>   git init
>   echo 1 >foo
>   git add foo
>   git commit -m 'first on master'       # A
>   echo 2 >>foo
>   git commit -m 'second on master' foo  # B
>   git checkout -b topic HEAD^
>   echo 1 >bar
>   git add bar
>   git commit -m 'first on topic'        # C
>   git checkout -b subtopic
>   echo 1 >baz
>   git add baz
>   git commit -m 'first on subtopic'     # D
>   git checkout topic
>   git merge --no-ff subtopic            # M
> 
> If I now execute 'git rebase -p master topic', I get the following:
> 
>   -A---B            master
>     \   \
>      \   C'---M'    topic
>       \      /
>        C----D
> 
> But I would rather like to have the following:
> 
>   -A---B            master
>         \
>          C'---M'    topic
>           \  /
>            D'
> 
> Would such a behaviour possible at all?
>