From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:04:25 GMT
Subject: Re: rebasing trouble
Message-ID: <7vd5crranq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060629194723.GD14287@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> I must be missing something obvious:
>
> bfields@puzzle:linux-2.6$ git checkout -b TMP nfs-client-stable^^^
> bfields@puzzle:linux-2.6$ git-describe
> v2.6.17-rc6-g28df955
> bfields@puzzle:linux-2.6$ git-rebase --onto v2.6.17 origin
> Nothing to do.
> bfields@puzzle:linux-2.6$ git-describe
> v2.6.17
>
> So the git-rebase just reset TMP to v2.6.17.  But I know that nfs-client-stable
> isn't a subset of origin, so this doesn't make sense to me.
>
> The tree in question is actually at git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git, if
> it matters.

It matters of course.  Where is the "origin"?