From: David Barr <davidbarr@google.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:06:56 GMT
Subject: Re: How to reorder all commits include the initial commit
Message-ID: <CAFfmPPOhjDhdry2yqgSyAVhaPF-fhXOPOAWRahFkFFssQmz89A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFT+Tg_DmqxiK1qw1YvNZtY07ZaZ89+JWohdWw2fm8f=6hAwiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:15 AM, 이응준 <semtlenori@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes, I need to reorder all commits, which include the initial
> commit, in my branch.
> So I tried it using git-rebase as follows, but it failed with the fatal error.
>
> (supposing the initial commit is 793ea88)
> $ git rebase -i 793ea88^
> fatal: Needed a single revision
> invalid upstream 793ea88^
>
> How can I do that?

From my reading of git-rebase(1), this is currently unsupported.
However, I was able to reorder linear history including the root using
git format-patch and git am.

  git init test
  cd test/
  echo a>b
  git add b
  git commit -m '1'
  echo c>d
  git add d
  git commit -m '2'
  git init new
  cd new/
  git am ../0002-2.patch
  git am ../0001-1.patch

--
David Barr