From: Dave Olszewski Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:46:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase--interactive: don't enforce valid branch Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vvdcygmz8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> There's already a test for rebasing on a previously detached HEAD. The >> form "git rebase -i HEAD~2" specifies a non-branch upstream, but doesn't >> take the branch argument which is the point of the change. > > What I meant was that if you prefer to work on a detached HEAD (and I > sometimes do), then your HEAD would likely to be detached already when you > run rebase. IOW, I would expect that > > git checkout HEAD^0 > ... perhaps do something, perhaps do nothing, here ... > git rebase -i HEAD~2 > > would be a lot more natural thing to do, and in that case you do not need > to say HEAD^0 there. That functionality already works. It's certainly possible to do it as you describe, but why require the extra step? git-rebase already supports detaching as part of its behavior, but rebase -i does not. It may seem nitpicky, but it's asymmetric and occasionally it's handy syntax.