From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:48:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqha7fnebn.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq7g8bfws8.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:37:11 +0100")
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> Or perhaps "-NUM" should fail with an error message if any of the last
>> NUM commits are merges. In that restricted scenario (which probably
>> accounts for 99% of rebases), "-NUM" is equivalent to "HEAD~NUM".
>
> Makes sense to me. So, -NUM would actually mean "rebase the last NUM
> commits" (as well as being an alias for HEAD~NUM), but would fail when
> it does not make sense (with an error message explaining the situation
> and pointing the user to HEAD~N if this is what he wanted).
>
> This would actually be a feature for me: I often want to rebase "recent
> enough" history, and when my @{upstream} isn't well positionned,...
Could you elaborate on this a bit? What does "isn't well
positioned" mean? Do you mean "the upstream has advanced but there
is no reason for my topic to build on that---I'd rather want to make
sure I can view 'diff @{1} HEAD' and understand what my changes
before the rebase was"? That is, what you really want is
git rebase -i --onto $(git merge-base @{upstream} HEAD) @{upstream}
but that is too long to type?
If it is very common (and I suspect it is), we may want to support
such a short-hand---the above does not make any sense without '-i',
but I would say with '-i' you do not want to reBASE on an updated
base most of the time. "git rebase -i @{upstream}...HEAD" or
something?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-03 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 13:01 [PATCH/RFC] rebase: new convenient option to edit a single commit Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-02-27 13:52 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28 6:58 ` Jeff King
2014-02-28 7:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-02-28 7:38 ` Jeff King
2014-02-28 17:14 ` Philip Oakley
2014-03-02 2:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] rebase's convenient options Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-02 2:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] rev-parse: support OPT_NUMBER_CALLBACK in --parseopt Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-04 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-02 2:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-02 8:37 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02 8:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-02 8:53 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02 8:55 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02 15:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 9:16 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-03 9:37 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 10:04 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-03 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-03 10:12 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 10:13 ` Jeff King
2014-03-03 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-03 22:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-03 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-02 2:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] rebase: new convenient option to edit a single commit Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-02 9:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-02 9:09 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-03 10:10 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-03 10:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-03 10:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-03 20:28 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-04 2:08 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-04 8:59 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-04 10:24 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-03-04 13:11 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-04 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-09 2:49 ` [PATCH/RFC] rebase: new convenient option to edit/reword/delete " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-03-09 16:30 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-10 8:30 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-10 8:41 ` Matthieu Moy
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