From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57AA1FE4E for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753972AbcKUNjz (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:39:55 -0500 Received: from hayek.cendio.se ([193.12.253.119]:56702 "EHLO mail.cendio.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753261AbcKUNjz (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:39:55 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 543 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:39:54 EST Received: from ossman.lkpg.cendio.se (unknown [IPv6:2a00:801:107:4700:92b1:1cff:fe97:f932]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cendio.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A7FBCC0A4AE6 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:30:47 +0100 (CET) To: git@vger.kernel.org From: Pierre Ossman Subject: --root seems to cancel out --keep-empty in git-rebase Organization: Cendio AB Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:30:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org As the subject says, these two commands give identical behaviour: git rebase --interactive --keep-empty --root and: git rebase --interactive --root I.e. --keep-empty has no effect when --root is specified. Ideas for workaround welcome. Regards -- Pierre Ossman Software Development Cendio AB https://cendio.com Teknikringen 8 https://twitter.com/ThinLinc 583 30 Linköping https://facebook.com/ThinLinc Phone: +46-13-214600 https://plus.google.com/+CendioThinLinc A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?