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Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add git-sequencer documentation

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Jul 30, 2008, 15:32 UTC
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > Whoa, does that mean that
> > > 
> > > 	$ git checkout my-private-branch
> > > 	$ git sequencer --onto=master
> > > 
> > > will change _master_?
> > 
> > Exactly.
> 
> /me does not like that.  I could see a new porcelain doing that, but not 
> the thing that will be called by rebase.

Yeah, an option to change which branch is current should be called something different. --onto is an initial reset --hard, not an initial checkout; it specifies the branch (or commit) that the sequence of changes are done on top of, not the branch that will contain them. "Onto" (as an english preposition) specifies a destination, not a location, so it doesn't make sense as the location that stuff is done.

	-Daniel
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Message 14 of 20 in “git sequencer prototype”
  1. Stephan BeyerJul 26, 2008
  2. 1/5 Add git-sequencer shell prototypeStephan Beyer, Jul 26, 2008
  3. 2/5 Add git-sequencer documentationStephan Beyer, Jul 26, 2008
  4. 3/5 Add git-sequencer test suite (t3350)Stephan Beyer, Jul 26, 2008
  5. 4/5 Migrate git-am to use git-sequencerStephan Beyer, Jul 26, 2008
  6. 5/5 Migrate rebase-i to sequencerStephan Beyer, Jul 26, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2008
  8. Stephan BeyerJul 30, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiJul 26, 2008
  10. Sverre RabbelierJul 26, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2008
  12. Stephan BeyerJul 30, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2008
  14. Daniel BarkalowJul 30, 2008
  15. Stephan BeyerJul 31, 2008
  16. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2008
  17. Sverre RabbelierJul 26, 2008
  18. Stephan BeyerJul 30, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinJul 30, 2008
  20. Stephan BeyerJul 31, 2008

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