Re: git rebase command and docs questions

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2010, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <p2m76c5b8581004091351o8ed7877ch1361f0089d3bdf79@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <r2mfabb9a1e1004091337w8ec2b721y3a5082d5e0f5925c@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Heya,
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 20:49, Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But, in “git rebase –onto master next topic” the meaning of the “next
>> topic” parameters is different: as I understand, it actually specifies
>> a range of commits from next to topic,  because –onto changes the way
>> the whole command is working, but it is not clarified in help. Is that
>> correct understanding?
>
> I've never been able to remember how rebase --onto works, perhaps if
> we actually let users specify a range it would be more intuitive?
>
> $ git rebase next..topic master

I thought about it too. Even with the old syntax:

git rebase --onto master next..topic

at least as a second option the whole command would be much more understandable for users. Currently, it fails with such range.

Thanks, Eugene