Re: [RFC] Replace rebase with filtering

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Steven Grimm wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> That is correct, but --ignore-if-in-upstream actually tests the hash of 
>> the _diff_, not of the commit. So, if c really introduces the same change 
>> as f (i.e. the diffs are identical), git-rebase will ignore f:
>>
>> a---b---c---d
>>              \
>>               e'---g'
>>
>> Totally untested, of course. But this is what --ignore-if-in-upstream was 
>> written for.
>>   
> 
> Okay, great, that is certainly an improvement over what I thought was 
> happening. But it won't work if you had to manually resolve a conflict 
> during the rebase, yes? In that case the diffs would presumably not match.

Then git-rerere would help, I think.

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