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From:   Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
To:     Robin Moussu <moussu.robin@pm.me>
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Subject: Re: Inconsistancy with `git rebase --preserve-merges`
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 02:10:07PM +0000, Robin Moussu wrote:
> Hi. I noticed that the position of the `--preserve-merges` option of
> `git rebase` is significant (I think it shouldn't).
> 
> The following snippet doesn't preserve the merges:
> ```
> $ git rebase --preserve-merges -i 412f07a~
> pick 412f07a Work on dev branch
> pick c6efccd Work on master branch
> pick 71c8c37 Some work after the merge
> ```
> 
> Whereas this one does what I expect:
> ```
> $ git rebase -i 412f07a~ --preserve-merges
> pick 412f07a Work on dev branch
> pick 616064c Merge branch 'master' into dev
> pick 71c8c37 Some work after the merge
> ```
> 
> For reference:
> ```
> $ git log --graph --oneline
> * 71c8c37      (HEAD -> dev) Some work after the merge
> *   616064c    Merge branch 'master' into dev
> |\
> | *   c6efccd  Work on master branch
> | *   ... (more work on master)
> * |   412f07a  Work on dev branch
> * |   ... (more work on dev)
> |/
> * 4ee50cb Common ancestor
> ```
> 
> Step to reproduce:
> ```
> mkdir temp
> cd temp
> git init
> git commit --allow-empty -m 'Common ancestor'
> git checkout -b dev
> git commit --allow-empty -m 'Work on dev branch'
> git tag some_commit
> git checkout master
> git commit --allow-empty -m 'Work on master branch'
> git checkout dev
> git merge master -m 'Merge branch 'master' into dev'
> git commit --allow-empty -m 'Some work after the merge'
> ```
> Then you will see that
>     git rebase -i some_commit --preserve-merges
> and
>     git rebase --preserve-merges  -i some_commit
> don't have the same output.
> 
> I am using git version 2.21.1 on Fedora 30.
> 
> Robin.
> 

Can you try `--rebase-merges` instead? Since v2.22.0 `--preseve-merges`
is officially deprecated, but even before that it was already known to
have flaws.

Kevin