Re: rebase problem

From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Date: Mar 17, 2012, 13:30 UTC
Message-ID: <4F649202.4080102@lyx.org>
In-Reply-To: <OF506B5658.3E449452-ONC12579C4.00460A6E-C12579C4.0047355D@transmode.se>

Op 17-3-2012 13:57, Joakim Tjernlund schreef:

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> A co-worker this on our local u-boot repo:
>    git checkout master
>    git fetch denx/master
>    git merge denx/master
> <resolve conflicts>
>    git commit
>    ...
>    git commit
> Now u-boot is working again
> then update to latest u-boot so:
>    git fetch denx/master
>    git rebase denx/master
> Now it is a mess, that rebase seems to start from way back as a
> staring reference, not from the last merge shown above.
> I guess I forgotten how git works, what did go wrong?
>
>    Jocke
>
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The situation is like this:

  master - C - o - o - D - o - o - o - A
                      /
  denx/master- - - - o - o - o - o - B

Now, you ask to rebase master (A) onto denx/master (B). If master would have started from D, it would indeed apply the commits D -- A on top of B. In your case, however, master already had a lot of commits that were not in denx/master: C -- D (including the merge resolution). So it will also apply C -- D on top of B.

Vincent