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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jonathon Mah <me@JonathonMah.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Renaming "git rebase --onto"
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:03:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150330210319.GC22844@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05D9209E-FAA2-44C8-9B98-B00997AF5779@JonathonMah.com>

Jonathon Mah wrote:

> Personally, I understand “git-rebase --onto new-base old-base” as
> meaning “rebase from old-base to new-base”. Some prepositions that
> might make this clearer:
>
> $ git rebase --from old-base new-base  # “Rebase HEAD onto new-base, from old-base"

Would having an option name for the old-base argument help?

For example:

	git rebase --old-base=<old-base> --onto=<new-base> <branch>

?

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-30 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-30 20:49 RFC: Renaming "git rebase --onto" Jonathon Mah
2015-03-30 21:03 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2015-03-30 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-02 16:40   ` Michael J Gruber
2015-03-30 21:53 ` Max Kirillov

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