Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] rebase: add switches to control todo-list setup

[Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:16 PM Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have the same need.  I plan to have some switch that invokes this
> "in-place rebase" behavior so that git can choose the upstream for me
> as `mergebase $sequence-edits`.  In fact, I want to make that the
> default for these switches, but that feels too surprising for the
> rebase command. I plan to progress like this:
>
>     # --in-place switch is not supported; manual upstream is given by user
>     git rebase --edit foo foo^
>
>      # --in-place switch is added; now we can say this
>      git rebase --edit foo --in-place

I originally CC'ed Denton on this thread because he recently added
--keep-base.  I initially hoped it would do something similar to
--in-place, but on reading the patch discussion, I think it's for
something different altogether.  :-\   It's similar, though, in the
same way that --fork-point is; which may be another way to say "not
very."