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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: rebase vs rebase -i
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:19:24 -0500
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Why does git rebase use format-patch + am, while rebase -i uses cherry-pick?

Just curious. In particular though, it seems especially odd in this case:

$ git rebase --onto <newbase> <upstream>

vs

$ env GIT_EDITOR=true git rebase -i --onto <newbase> <upstream>

Both in theory produce an identical end-result, while using two
different implementations.

(Here I'm setting GIT_EDITOR=true just to demonstrate that I didn't
change the list of commits in the latter case.)

j.