Re: [RFC PATCH] Teach rebase to rebase even if upstream is up to date with -f

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> Say I have a bunch of new commits ready to submit to origin, but I want to fix
> some whitespace damage, I could do something like this:
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -b rebase-me
> $ git reset --hard origin/master
> $ git commit --allow-empty "force rebase"
> $ git checkout rebase-me
> $ git rebase --whitespace=fix master
> $ git rebase -i master # kick out the 'force rebase' commit
> $ git checkout master
> $ git reset --hard rebase-me
> $ git branch -d rebase-me

For that, I would prefer to see:

	git format-patch --stdout origin >my.mbox
	git fetch origin
        git checkout origin             ;# yes, detach
        git am --whitespace=fix my.mbox
        make test
        git format-patch -o to-send-out origin
	git send-email ..options.. to-send-out

for two reasons.

It fixes whitespace breakages, but more importantly, the procedure makes
sure that what you will be sending out will apply cleanly to the origin
that may have progressed since you last looked at it.