From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:38:36 GMT
Subject: Re: What I want rebase to do
Message-ID: <7vwqtjm7oj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87r4jra942.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>

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

> I still think that the _right_ solution is first redoing the merge on
> its original parents and then seeing how the actual merge differs from
> that.

I think that is what was suggested in

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198316

> Perhaps a new option to git-rebase could trigger the above behavior for
> merges, who knows.  (It could be called --first-parent.)

Yeah, I think that is what the old thread concluded to be the way to
move forward:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/198125

I'll throw it in to the "leftover bits".

    http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2013/02/more-leftover-bits.html