From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?David_K=C3=A5gedal?= Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:47:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87ws0q5w5z.fsf@lysator.liu.se> References: <20091208144740.GA30830@redhat.com> <7vfx7lcj18.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 13 23:47:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NJxDt-0004y4-Pg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:47:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754560AbZLMWrZ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:47:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754547AbZLMWrZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:47:25 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50690 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754537AbZLMWrY (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:47:24 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NJxDm-0004ve-Jg for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:47:22 +0100 Received: from 62.20.90.206 ([62.20.90.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:47:22 +0100 Received: from davidk by 62.20.90.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:47:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.20.90.206 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rBQMO9+qCnnSLYzbGZsZ3ze1LWI= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > >> Add --revisions flag to rebase, so that it can be used >> to apply an arbitrary range of commits on top >> of a current branch. > > I would suggest calling the option to invoke that hidden mode not > "--revisions", but "--reverse" or "--opposite" or something of that > nature, though. It makes "rebase" work in different direction. And there are no "revisions" in git. So using that term for anything would only be confusing. Git has "commits" and various kinds of references to them. --=20 David K=C3=A5gedal