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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.