From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:45:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rebase -i: new option --name-rev
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In-Reply-To: <CAJh6GrGEix8qfAuJamWzcr69=LjkZ-O9B=Vorvy_KTcJe3TcPA@mail.gmail.com>

Dominique Quatravaux <domq@google.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> Rebase -i happily linearizes mergy history, so this
>> does have some merits even today.
>
> Right, my personal itch is to "transplant" topic branches without their merge
> history getting in the way,...
> ...
>   pick 1234abc (topicB~2) Cool shiny new stuff
>   pick 234abc1 (master~2) Something something master
>   pick 34abc12 (master~1) Fix something something
>   pick 4abc123 (topicB)   Fix shiny new stuff

Ok. I didn't consider the "flattening" aspect of the rebase, and the
above makes sense to me.