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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, ulrich.haberl@autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Warn user about known Git Rebase bug?!
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:39:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170322223902.GG26108@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C45FE2B3-E4B5-4988-85B4-3CCB41C9ACC3@gmail.com>

Lars Schneider wrote:

> we rebased a branch using "--preserve-merges --interactive" and were 
> surprised that the operation reported success although it silently 
> omitted commits (Git 2.12 on Windows). A little search revealed that 
> these are likely known bugs [1]. Would it make sense to print an 
> appropriate warning message if a user runs rebase with 
> "--preserve-merges --interactive"?

Sounds like a good idea.  Care to suggest a patch?

Thanks,
Jonathan

> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_bugs

      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-22 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-22 13:55 Warn user about known Git Rebase bug?! Lars Schneider
2017-03-22 22:39 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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