From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:20:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Itches with the current rev spec
Message-ID: <CALkWK0n=K1PK64xAvCUOQwhMUUtdSLyOGxNLZuqWYvVddZgmKw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8v45vvuy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.