Re: [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number>

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is "rev-list style", where people can do "git rev-list -3" in
>> addition to "git rev-list HEAD~3". A lot of commands are driven by the
>> revision machinery and also accept this form. This addition to rebase
>> is just for convenience.
>
> I'm seeing some pretty strange results with this. If I use -1, -2, or
> -3 then it rebases the expected commits, however, -4 gives me 9
> commits, and -5 rebases 35 commits. Am I misunderstanding how this
> works?