Re: Heads up: major rebase -i -p rework coming up

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > So maybe I answered my question myself:
> >
> > 	merge parents $sha1 [$sha1...] original $sha1 $msg
> 
> When you are reparenting, how would original commit get in the picture?
> You wouldn't want the resulting merge to claim it merged X (which would be
> what's in original's commit log) when in fact it now merged Y because the
> user reparented it, would you?

Well, the subject part of merge (with merged branches names) shouldn't,
I guess, change. The summary (shortlog) part might, or perhaps even
should following rewrite (if it was present here).

But there is one issue I am wondering about: could we pick up _merge_
_resolution_? So if you have evil merge, and the change is for example
splitting commits without visible final changes, or just changing some
commit message before merge, it would get recreated without problems?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland