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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>> $ git rebase -i -10
>> $ git rebase -i -n -10
>
> The syntax would certainly imply a different semantics from giving
> HEAD~10.  How would you compute the set of commits to rebase sanely when
> you have merges after your 10th direct parent commit?

I didn't mean to suggest that -10 and HEAD~10 are the same thing.

I would expect -10 to act the same when given to rebase as it does
when given to format-patch. In both cases, you are asking the command
for a set of commits.

But as I said, I don't exactly know what -10 means to format-patch if
there are merge commits because I've never tried to use it in such a
context.

j.