From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:46:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rebase: teach rebase --keep-base
Message-ID: <xmqq1s2mvw9i.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1903291643060.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Denton,
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, Denton Liu wrote:
>
>> A common scenario is if a user is working on a topic branch and they
>> wish to make some changes to intermediate commits or autosquash, they
>> would run something such as
>>
>> 	git rebase -i --onto master... master
> ...
> I wonder, however, whether it makes sense to introduce a shorter, sweeter
> way to do this:
>
> 		git rebase -i master...

I agree that this is very tempting, as it mimicks "git checkout
master...".  But as Denton responds, it is not quite the same, so...