Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation: Two more git-rebase --onto examples
Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
> I think Jakub's explanations do a much better job of explaining
> something someone might actually want to do and then showing how to do
> it. So if there's redundancy I'd vote for dropping the old stuff.
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> Meanwhile, while we're talking about git-rebase documentation, the
> recent posts about the:
>
> git rebase --onto <foo> <upstream> <branch>
>
> form take advantage of the fact that this command also changes the
> current branch to <branch>. I think that's quite surprising behavior,
> (though useful in the example that was given). It's perhaps out of
> line with the scope of git-rebase but it should at least be
> documented. I think that will need some specific mention before the
> examples.
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>