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From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git rebase --interactive commits order
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 12:58:26 +0200
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> I don't understand. Why not just _display_ the commit in reverse orde=
r?
> Then, from the user POV commands like squash, fixup, etc would apply =
in
> reverse order too (from up to down); keeping the mental model for "ap=
ply
> against ancestor".

Yes, this is what has been suggested. Just display in reverse in the
editor, and on save=A0read the tasks to be done in a reverse manner or
simply reverse the tasks to be done before processing normally.

In fact I can already implement it in my editor by reversing the
commits (vim, some command), doing my stuffs, then reversing it back
before saving. It's pretty error prone because if I forget to reverse
them back then bad things happen, so it'd be nice if rebase handled
this for me.

Philippe