Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] rebase: add switches to control todo-list setup

From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 22, 2019, 19:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CABURp0pEB-3m=wbWsVc9C82d3Jf2UW4fXnsSZ+GnTHKWRJo0NQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:16 PM Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have the same need.  I plan to have some switch that invokes this
> "in-place rebase" behavior so that git can choose the upstream for me
> as `mergebase $sequence-edits`.  In fact, I want to make that the
> default for these switches, but that feels too surprising for the
> rebase command. I plan to progress like this:
>
>     # --in-place switch is not supported; manual upstream is given by user
>     git rebase --edit foo foo^
>
>      # --in-place switch is added; now we can say this
>      git rebase --edit foo --in-place

I originally CC'ed Denton on this thread because he recently added --keep-base. I initially hoped it would do something similar to --in-place, but on reading the patch discussion, I think it's for something different altogether. :-\ It's similar, though, in the same way that --fork-point is; which may be another way to say "not very."