Re: Can not rebase to first commit

From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: Jan 25, 2021, 11:22 UTC
Message-ID: <YA6qDe07eHNKBE6l@alpha>
In-Reply-To: <1327609829.20210125123816@yandex.ru>

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:38:16PM +0200, Eugen Konkov wrote:

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> I can not rebase to first commit.
> 
> This is how to reproduce:
> 
> kes@work ~/work/projects/general/Auth $ git tree
> * 67857d5 (HEAD -> dev) asdf
> * 1e99034 (local/dev) Initial commit
> kes@work ~/work/projects/general/Auth $ git rebase -i --autostash --rebase-merges 1e99034^
> fatal: invalid upstream '1e99034^'
> 
> 
> git --version
> git version 2.30.0
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Eugen Konkov 
>

This is because the first commit (1e99034) does not have a parent, so 1e99034^ cannot be resolved.

git rebase does however have an option for this: git rebase -i --root. That allows you to rebase the root commit.

Hope this helps, Kevin