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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:03:13PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> This is definitively good Documentation/howto/ material.

There's actually something similar already in "modifying a single
commit" in the "user manual":

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#id276844

But it uses a throw-away branch instead of the detached head, and uses
rebase --onto instead of rebasing and then --skip'ing.

--b.