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From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: git rebase -i and root commits
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:02:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080723020232.GF5904@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080723T013019-412@post.gmane.org>

Hi,

Eric Raible wrote:
> My normal workflow is to create a .gitignore in my initial commit.
> 
> When I later realize that I've forgotten something from that file
> I could of course just commit the changes, but I'd rather use "git rebase -i"
> in the normal way to make myself appear smarter than I am.
> Especially since this realization usually comes early on
> (and certainly before publishing).
> 
> But rebase can't go all the way to a root ("fatal: Needed a single revision").

I think this has been fixed recently.

Regards,
  Stephan

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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-23  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-23  1:58 RFC: git rebase -i and root commits Eric Raible
2008-07-23  2:02 ` Stephan Beyer [this message]
2008-07-23  9:05   ` Johannes Schindelin

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