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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Re: rebase -i: explain how to discard all commits
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:28:03 -0800
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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> (I for one have never accepted such a rebase; if the TODO only
> consists of noop, that means I made a mistake.)

Wouldn't that suggest us that if we were to do anything to this message it
would be a good idea to teach the user to "reset --hard" the branch if no
commits truly needs to be replayed on top of the onto-commit?