From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:06:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] range-diff: make output format more useful for "rebase --onto"
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSJ4tsJFPK2UQsj_m6DxQteLXjYSzVcrP=Wyeox5mJu7Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv92yg5y6.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:04 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> In a range-diff output, we often see an early part of an updated
> series having no changes since the previous iteration.  After
> applying an updated patch submission to the same base as the
> previous round,
> [...]
> Now, after noticing that up to step #5 there is no change since the
> previous round, cleaning up the application result with
>
>     $ git rebase --onto 097b89c815 97b89c8150
>
> will help making it easier to see that earliser part did not change
> before committing this in the longer term history.

s/earliser/earlier/