Re: git bugs

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,


On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Sean Hunt wrote:

> There are a few bugs I git I noticed when using mingw, mingw64,
> cygwin, and cygwin64. These bugs are the following:
> 
> if I do git ``rebase -i --root`` and tell it to edit every commit to
> gpg sign all my commits it bugs out and merges all of the commits into
> 1 commit instead of only appending the ``-S`` to each and every commit
> and keeping all of the commits. It is as if I told it to squash the
> commits but yet I did not. There is also another bug where if I clone
> a repo on Windows and not on github desktop and that I placed commits
> to the repo on github web and then when I rebase to squash the commits
> to 1 commit (some repos are doing it as a requirement for 1 commit
> PR's) that all of my commits on the remote (fork in this case) that is
> linked to an open pull request are discarded and then the pull request
> is somehow and oddly closed. It is super annoying.

It appears this was reported as
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1072, too.

I asked for clarification there, as I am quite confused by the
description.

Ciao,
Johannes