Re: [PATCH 7/7] Add an optional limit to git-rebase

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:30:20AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
> 
> > This patch adds a limit to restrict the list of patches to rebase.
> >
> > This is useful when a set of patches were done against a given head,
> > but needs to be ported to a different head, as opposed to being ported
> > to a descendant of the original head.  In such a case we only want to
> > port our own patches, not those that make the two branches different
> > upstream.
> 
> This usage makes sense, independent from your git-format-patch
> "limit" patch.  The patched argument to git-format-patch does
> not match your git-format-patch changes AFAICT ;-).

D'oh, I knew I should always written a testsuite when changing the
implementation of a feature at such a late time in night.


> > -git-format-patch -k --stdout --full-index "$other" ORIG_HEAD |
> > +git-format-patch -k --stdout --full-index "$other" ORIG_HEAD $limit |
> 
> If all you want to do is to move the cut-off point more recent
> than the merge base is, how about (without your git-format-patch
> changes) doing something stupid like this instead?
> 
>   git-format-patch -k --stdout --full-index ${limit:-"$other"} ORIG_HEAD

Right, that would even be closer to the version that had indeed been
tested - it does have the advantage of passing t3401, though :)

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