Re: Can not rebase to first commit

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2021, 14:21 UTC
Message-ID: <YA7T8fo5zngSD+zd@nand.local>
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

(Unrelated to your question, but I assume that 'git tree' is an alias of 'git log --oneline --graph' by the looks of it).

> kes@work ~/work/projects/general/Auth $ git rebase -i --autostash --rebase-merges 1e99034^
> fatal: invalid upstream '1e99034^'

Yes, this is because you're asking to rebase your branch onto the parent of 1e99034, which doesn't exist because 1e99034 is the "root" commit and therefore has no parents.

'git rebase' has a special option for exactly this case, which is '--root'. By replacing '1e99034^' with '--root', you should be able to do what you want.

Thanks, Taylor