From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:30:54 GMT
Subject: Re: How to rebase after upstream was merged?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707041426570.4071@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <468B918E.FBCADCB9@eudaptics.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> I have this history:
> 
> o--o--o--o--o   <- origin
>     \        \
>      x--x--x--M--x--x  <- master (HEAD)
> 
> At this point I would like to rebase to straighten the history, but it
> won't let me:
> 
>     $ git rebase origin
>     Current branch master is up to date.

I'd do something like

$ git checkout -b tmp HEAD~3
$ git rebase origin
$ git checkout master
$ git rebase --onto tmp HEAD~2
$ git branch -d tmp

> I would like to extend the check to also check for linear history. How
> can I do this most efficiently? My first try is along these lines:
> 
>   test $(git rev-list origin..HEAD | wc -l) = \
>        $(git rev-list --no-merges origin..HEAD | wc -l)
> 
> Is there a better approach?

I usually to

	test -z "$(git rev-list --parents origin..HEAD | grep " .* ")"

Hth,
Dscho