From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] learn to pick/revert into unborn branch
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:01:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0GsqPSk-WstydjZHXc5WSmDJimfRcx4Mn7Uyw0s3LdpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiSa6i0-Z=FkPnSJxgT+3ABHTzgOTNNNUb=wHQpm2DKAN_UOw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Martin von Zweigbergk
<martinvonz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As for use cases, I didn't consider that much more than that it might
> be useful for implementing "git rebase --root". I haven't implemented
> that yet, so I can't say for sure that it will work out.
>
> One use case might be to rewrite history by creating an new unborn
> branch and picking the initial commit and a subset of other commits.
> Anyway, I didn't implement it because I thought it would be very
> useful, but mostly because I just thought it should work (for
> completeness).
I agree that it would be nice if it worked.
Thanks,
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-23 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-21 19:10 [PATCH 1/2] tests: move test_cmp_rev to test-lib-functions Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-12-21 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] learn to pick/revert into unborn branch Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-12-23 3:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-23 6:24 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-12-23 7:01 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2012-12-23 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-23 20:27 ` Philip Oakley
2012-12-23 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-23 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-12-24 7:20 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2012-12-23 4:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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