Re: [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:30:06PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > So perhaps a good way to move forward is to teach "git cherry-pick A..B"
> > to be a thin wrapper that invokes a new hidden mode of operation added to
> > "rebase" that is not advertised to the end user.
> >
> > I would suggest calling the option to invoke that hidden mode not
> > "--revisions", but "--reverse" or "--opposite" or something of that
> > nature, though.  It makes "rebase" work in different direction.
> 
> Intuitively,
> 
>   git rebase --reverse A..B
> 
> would mean "take the range A..B, and start applying the patches from
> B, going in reverse order up to A", like "git log --reverse". So, I'd
> find it misleading.
> 
> Perhaps "git rebase --cherry-pick A..B" would be a better name. No
> objection for --opposite either.

I relly like --cherry-pick. Junio, objections to that one?

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> Matthieu Moy
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