From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag
Message-ID: <87ws0q5w5z.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vfx7lcj18.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Add --revisions flag to rebase, so that it can be used
>> to apply an arbitrary range of commits on top
>> of a current branch.
>
> I would suggest calling the option to invoke that hidden mode not
> "--revisions", but "--reverse" or "--opposite" or something of that
> nature, though.  It makes "rebase" work in different direction.

And there are no "revisions" in git. So using that term for anything
would only be confusing. Git has "commits" and various kinds of
references to them.

-- 
David Kågedal