From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: rebase -i: learn to rebase root commit Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:22:26 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhc4m3we5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <5d0be6d15bbdaa8b95c1df161b67ecd4120d7ce4.1230569041.git.trast@student.ethz.ch> <200812292249.45900.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 30 09:24:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHZtQ-0005AP-5G for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:24:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753355AbYL3IWd (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:22:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751845AbYL3IWd (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:22:33 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:40425 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751501AbYL3IWc (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:22:32 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9278BBFB; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:22:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A40F8BBFA; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:22:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200812292249.45900.trast@student.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:49:42 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 0081EEE8-D64B-11DD-A988-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Rast writes: > ... is there any sensible > use/interpretation of -p --root that I'm missing? Or should it just > disallow this combination? If --root is about replaying all the history, wouldn't people want to use it together with -p to reconstruct the whole history as a substitute for filter-branch? IOW, I have a suspicion that they most likely should go together. I never felt a need to rebase deep down to --root myself anyway, so I am a bad judge for people's needs on this topic, though.