From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:22:26 GMT
Subject: Re: rebase -i: learn to rebase root commit
Message-ID: <7vhc4m3we5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200812292249.45900.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> ... is there any sensible
> use/interpretation of -p --root that I'm missing?  Or should it just
> disallow this combination?

If --root is about replaying all the history, wouldn't people want to use
it together with -p to reconstruct the whole history as a substitute for
filter-branch?  IOW, I have a suspicion that they most likely should go
together.

I never felt a need to rebase deep down to --root myself anyway, so I am a
bad judge for people's needs on this topic, though.