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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 03:55:01 -0500
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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>=
 wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=
 Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is "rev-list style", where people can do "git rev-list -3" in
>> addition to "git rev-list HEAD~3". A lot of commands are driven by t=
he
>> revision machinery and also accept this form. This addition to rebas=
e
>> is just for convenience.
>
> I'm seeing some pretty strange results with this. If I use -1, -2, or
> -3 then it rebases the expected commits, however, -4 gives me 9
> commits, and -5 rebases 35 commits. Am I misunderstanding how this
> works?

Nevermind. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that I was attempting
to rebase merges.