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Re: Itches with the current rev spec

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 29, 2013, 15:20 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  - If the UI language for "rebase" were designed following the
>    "composition using common elements like ranges and revisions"
>    school, it would have started from "rebase --onto=X A..B".

I will try to drive the point home one more time. What do you really want to rebase? B ^A or B ^$(git merge-base A B)? They're two entirely different things as I've repeated countless times. And the latter is what I always really mean.

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