From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:01:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] learn to pick/revert into unborn branch
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Martin von Zweigbergk
<martinvonz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As for use cases, I didn't consider that much more than that it might
> be useful for implementing "git rebase --root". I haven't implemented
> that yet, so I can't say for sure that it will work out.
>
> One use case might be to rewrite history by creating an new unborn
> branch and picking the initial commit and a subset of other commits.
> Anyway, I didn't implement it because I thought it would be very
> useful, but mostly because I just thought it should work (for
> completeness).

I agree that it would be nice if it worked.

Thanks,
Christian.