[BUG] - git rebase -i performs rebase when it shouldn't?

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 9, 2010, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID: <z2q76c5b8581004091235ucd9b2a52i223b3191b288c42a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

In case of this situation

       A  master
        \
         B  next
          \
           C  topic

$ git rebase --onto master topic First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... fatal: Not a range. Nothing to do.

Which is OK.

When I fired up interactive rebase, it printed me “noop”, so I was expecting it to do nothing and exited the vi, without deleting this "noop". But it did performed some operation and I actually have commit C lost, with topic pointing to the same commit as master.

$ git rebase -i --onto master topic Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/topic.

I believe this is wrong.

Thanks, Eugene