From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:37:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new 'rebase' command.
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0701211537oac61eceq48d45501193e6790@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070121232618.GD4665@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

On 21/01/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:00:57PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > I applied it but changed the patch a bit so that there is no need for
> > the --to option. I understood your point but I find it a bit strange
> > to have this mandatory option. Anyway, command line syntax doesn't
> > have to follow the natural language exactly :-).
>
> Well, I thought the natural next patch to this command would be,
> according to the discussions with Jakub, to make first "--to target"
> optional, as a natural replacement for "stg pull . <target>" when the
> target is the parent branch, and then possibly add the ability of
> running rebase from the target branch as also sugested by Jakub,
> leading to the natural "rebase [<stack>|--to <target>]" syntax.
>
> Although I'm not sure we'll do that in the near future, removing the
> need for --to would somewhat get in the way of this possibility.

I'll go through the other e-mails tomorrow (too late here) and either
add the option back or come with counter arguments :-)

-- 
Catalin