Re: Why won't "git rebase -Xrenormalize -i $REBASE_SHA" do anything?

[Torsten =?unknown-8bit?Q?B=C3=B6gershausen?= <tboegi@web.de>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:01:50PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've added "* text=auto" to an existing repo with a completely linear history.

What exactly does this mean ?
Is there one branch, several branches ?
No merges at all ?

>
> Now, as expected, every rebase operation gives me lots of conflicts, which are
> hard to resolve.
>
> So I'd like to clean up the history:
>
>   $ git rebase -Xrenormalize -i $REBASE_SHA
>
> But this turns out to be a no-op? It says immediately
>
>   Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/wip-normalize
>
> without even the counter which is usually output to show progress during an
> interactive rebase as it is working through the rebase-todo. I can confirm
> that nothing has happened by checking the sha of the branch.
>
> So, what am I missing? How would I renormalize all the commits of a branch?
That is a tricky question.
If you renormalize all commits of one branch,
you create a complete new history, right ?
Just out of interest:
Why do you want to do this ?
And I have the slight feeling, that Git does not support this
"renormalize all the commits of a branch" workflow, but I may be wrong.

Is you repo public ?
Or could you come up with an example ?

> The branch has linear history, no merges there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Josef Wolf
> jw@raven.inka.de