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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Editing the root commit
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:39:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120620193922.GB3192@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120620192938.GC31520@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But if the first commit is deleted (or reordered), then it is not
> appropriate to detach to the root; we must detach to the first picked
> commit, which we can only do after we see the final instruction sheet.

It's worse than that isn't it? If you have

  A -- B -- C

and the sheet says drop A, pick B, pick C, you can't detach to B. You want
the commit B as a root (i.e. with no parent), not the commit B with parent
A. You need to have the patch from A to B replayed as the first commit on an
empty branch (only without the branch).

Cheers,

Chris.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19  9:16 Editing the root commit Chris Webb
2012-06-19 10:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 11:17   ` Chris Webb
2012-06-20  9:32     ` Chris Webb
2012-06-20 18:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 19:29         ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 19:39           ` Chris Webb [this message]
2012-06-20 19:48             ` Jeff King
2012-06-22 20:50               ` Chris Webb
2012-06-22 21:35                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-22 22:02                   ` Chris Webb
2012-06-22 22:26                     ` Chris Webb
2012-06-22 22:50                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-23  7:20                         ` Chris Webb
2012-06-26 15:04                 ` git-commit bug (was Re: Editing the root commit) Chris Webb
2012-06-26 15:06                   ` [PATCH] git-checkout: disallow --detach on unborn branch Chris Webb
2012-06-26 18:08                   ` git-commit bug Junio C Hamano
2012-06-26 13:33               ` Editing the root commit Chris Webb
2012-06-26 13:36                 ` [PATCH 1/2] rebase -i: support --root without --onto Chris Webb
2012-06-26 13:36                   ` [PATCH 2/2] Add tests for rebase -i " Chris Webb
2012-06-26 19:20                   ` [PATCH 1/2] rebase -i: support " Junio C Hamano
2012-06-26 19:38                     ` Chris Webb
2012-06-26 20:05                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-26 20:11                         ` Chris Webb
2012-06-26 21:24                           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-26 21:27                             ` Chris Webb
2012-06-20 19:35         ` Editing the root commit Chris Webb
2012-06-25 17:22         ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-06-19 11:50 ` jaseem abid

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