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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: be cleverer with rebased upstream branches
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Santi B=C3=A9jar <santi@agolina.net> writes:

>> +    oldremoteref=3D$(git merge-base $curr_branch $oldremoteref $(gi=
t
>> rev-list -g $remoteref 2>/dev/null))

Yuck; the entire set of commits that appear in reflog can be quite long=
=2E
What will happen when this exceeds the shell command line limit or when
you get E2BIG from execve(2)?