From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:09:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git rebase -i
Message-ID: <7v63j6oi0d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <FEE581A3-C858-45CF-B545-8F7187FCCE40@ai.rug.nl>

Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> writes:

> On 19 feb 2009, at 09:21, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>>  Would there be any objections to making  'git rebase -i' default to
>> HEAD~10  or maybe 16 or 20.  Having sensible defaults for commands
>> helps a bit with making it easier to use.
>
> I'd prefer something a bit less arbitrary, like using the tracked head
> for a tracking branch.

I'd say that might be a very sane default for users or "branch --track"
and/or "pull --rebase", both for i-rebase and rebase.