From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Cc: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: git rebase -i and root commits
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:05:04 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807231103230.2830@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080723020232.GF5904@leksak.fem-net>
Hi,
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> Eric Raible wrote:
> > My normal workflow is to create a .gitignore in my initial commit.
> >
> > When I later realize that I've forgotten something from that file
> > I could of course just commit the changes, but I'd rather use "git rebase -i"
> > in the normal way to make myself appear smarter than I am.
> > Especially since this realization usually comes early on
> > (and certainly before publishing).
> >
> > But rebase can't go all the way to a root ("fatal: Needed a single revision").
>
> I think this has been fixed recently.
No, it has not.
What has been fixed is that you can cherry-pick a root commit now, not
rebase onto nothing.
While I am somewhat sympathetic with Eric's use case, I am not sure that
we should support it with rebase -i.
Ciao,
Dscho
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-23 1:58 RFC: git rebase -i and root commits Eric Raible
2008-07-23 2:02 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23 9:05 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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