bug: report `rebase -i + subtree add --prefix = disaster`

[Luciano Joublanc <luciano.joublanc@digitalasset.com>]

Hi,

I would like to report what I suspect is a bug in `git rebase -i`.

The problem in question is that when a `rebase -i` is run on a repo
which has had a subtree added with `git subtree add --prefix=xxx`
previously; the later command will be executed without the `--prefix`
argument, resulting in the `subtree` command being replayed to the
_root_ of the repo.

To illustrate this example, this is what happened to me.

1. I ran `git subtree add --prefix=ui ../ui/ui.git master` on my repo
to merge a sub-project into the `ui` subdirectory.
2. Sometime later, I had to re-write history to remove a large binary.
I did this using
  a) `git rebase -i` and
  b) removing the file with `git rm bigfile.bin` and then `git commit --amend`.
  c) completed the rebase with `git rebase --continue`.
3. The resulting repository had all the files of the subproject 'ui',
but in the root directory. e.g. previously I had folder `./ui/python`,
now I have `./python`.

Please let me know if I can produce any more information.

Regards,

Luciano

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