From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:18:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation: Two more git-rebase --onto examples
Message-ID: <7vodrkcrjj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87zmb4v3vu.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

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.

I agree with that.

> 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.

Good point.