From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:35:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Heads up: major rebase -i -p rework coming up
Message-ID: <7vwscjceec.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901251622310.14855@racer>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> So maybe I answered my question myself:
>
> 	merge parents $sha1 [$sha1...] original $sha1 $msg

When you are reparenting, how would original commit get in the picture?
You wouldn't want the resulting merge to claim it merged X (which would be
what's in original's commit log) when in fact it now merged Y because the
user reparented it, would you?