Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: don't enforce valid branch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Mar 15, 2010, 05:20 UTC

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Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com> writes:

> git rebase allows you to specify a non-branch commit-ish as the "branch"
> argument, which leaves HEAD detached when it's finished.  This is
> occasionally useful, and this patch brings the same functionality to git
> rebase ---interactive.

Three dashes?

> +test_expect_success 'rebase while detaching HEAD' '
> +	grandparent=$(git rev-parse HEAD~2) &&
> +	test_tick &&
> +	FAKE_LINES="2 1" git rebase -i HEAD~2 HEAD^0 &&

What's the point of saying this?  You could instead say:

	git rebase -i HEAD~2

no?