From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:20:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Matthew Brett , Git Mailing List , Reuben Thomas To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 22:21:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJTrR-0004CJ-Gt for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:21:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751127AbbBEVVN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:21:13 -0500 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:58686 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750838AbbBEVVM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 16:21:12 -0500 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t15LKrwJ006169 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:20:53 +0100 Received: from anie.imag.fr (anie.imag.fr [129.88.7.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t15LKtAw018781; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:20:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:58:21 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:20:53 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: t15LKrwJ006169 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1423776055.7383@A64g5PH+klefrI5RO/HlWA Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > Perhaps something like this instead? > > git-rebase - Rebuild a branch on top of a different commit I would say "Replay history on top of a different commit" instead. "Rebuild" may be misleading (it's not "build" as in "compile & link"), and the rebased history does not technically have to be a branch. But both are far better than what we have IMHO. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/