From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:55:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number>
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSFWT6kwZUFFUE3=TcfHRUJnx54+fcZCzJwmOSJKFsYeA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSPKSsVG_yqaQfOCswaENKdUGrWt_YcQ3yZCpgG5jQ+JQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> 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?

Nevermind. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that I was attempting
to rebase merges.