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Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> writes:

> On 19 feb 2009, at 09:21, John Tapsell wrote:
>
>>  Would there be any objections to making  'git rebase -i' default to
>> HEAD~10  or maybe 16 or 20.  Having sensible defaults for commands
>> helps a bit with making it easier to use.
>
> I'd prefer something a bit less arbitrary, like using the tracked head
> for a tracking branch.

I'd say that might be a very sane default for users or "branch --track"
and/or "pull --rebase", both for i-rebase and rebase.