From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation: Two more git-rebase --onto examples Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:18:40 -0800 Message-ID: <7vodrkcrjj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <200611042205.58212.jnareb@gmail.com> <7vbqnmwvib.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200611051122.17623.jnareb@gmail.com> <87zmb4v3vu.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <87zmb4v3vu.wl%cworth@cworth.org> (Carl Worth's message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:14:45 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh9ze-0007ZX-4p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:18:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752622AbWKFTSn (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:18:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752628AbWKFTSn (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:18:43 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao11.cox.net ([68.230.241.28]:21143 "EHLO fed1rmmtao11.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752622AbWKFTSm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:18:42 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061106191841.NGLQ13992.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:18:41 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id jXJm1V00T1kojtg0000000; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:18:47 -0500 To: Carl Worth Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Carl Worth writes: > I think Jakub's explanations do a much better job of explaining > something someone might actually want to do and then showing how to do > it. So if there's redundancy I'd vote for dropping the old stuff. I agree with that. > Meanwhile, while we're talking about git-rebase documentation, the > recent posts about the: > > git rebase --onto > > form take advantage of the fact that this command also changes the > current branch to . I think that's quite surprising behavior, > (though useful in the example that was given). It's perhaps out of > line with the scope of git-rebase but it should at least be > documented. I think that will need some specific mention before the > examples. Good point.