Re: [PATCH 0/10] re-based and expanded tree-walker cleanup patches

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Pretty powerful, although at one point I was wondering about having a "git 
> > rebase" that could switch commits around or drop unwanted ones (ie let the 
> > user edit the cherry-picking list before the actual rebase).
> 
> I think true power users would just do the last two lines of
> git-rebase.sh by hand in two steps.  By stashing away the
> format-patch output, and using git-am interactively, you can
> easily drop unwanted ones, and then re-run git-am on the same
> format-patch output to apply the ones you dropped on the first
> run practically amounts to reordering the patches ;-).

Having to move around whole patches in the editor is not what you want to 
do. I was thinking more along the lines of

 (a) git-rev-list --pretty=oneline "$upstream"..ORIG_HEAD > rev-list

 (b) edit the rev-list, moving the single lines around, deleting them, etc

 (c) cat rev-list |
     git-format-patch -k --stdout --stdin --full_index |
     git-am

because the "--pretty=oneline" format is actually very nice as a way to 
re-order things and select single commits to be deleted or whatever..

		Linus