Re: Feature request: rebase -i inside of rebase -i

[Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>]

Hi george,

On 31/03/2020 01:00, George Spelvin wrote:
> Thinking about Philip Oakley's suggestion, it dawned on me that
> we can *already* do a nested rebase manually, and having a less
> manual alias for the procedure would be reasonable.
>
> Suppose the last four commits are O-A-B-C, and whether they were created 
> by this rebase or existed before is irrelevant.
>
> If I want to rebase --nested -i O, then I --edit-todo and

Maybe `--rework` as a possible alternate option name, if the concept of
it being truly nested process does not work out?

> prepend the following four lines:
> reset O
> pick A
> pick B
> pick C
>
> If a nested rebase command does just that, I think it would cover my
> use case.  If it adds a comment saying "nested rebase ends here",
> it's easy to cancel the nested rebase if there was a mistake.
>
> A slightly fancier thing a nestrd rebase could do is see if any of the 
> newly created picks are also used in merges that were already in the todo 
> list.  In that case, follow the pick by a label command and update the 
> later merge to refer to the label.