From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Catalin Marinas" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new 'rebase' command. Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:37:14 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20070120180329.22621.30534.stgit@gandelf.nowhere.earth> <20070121232618.GD4665@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 22 00:37:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8mFT-0002Hc-Uo for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:37:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751794AbXAUXhQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:37:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751791AbXAUXhQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:37:16 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.237]:39998 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751794AbXAUXhP (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so785781nze for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:37:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kr+dwKznve5DobcxFqjUzzsWX9/YbCy214zpemWRMLeXatYvXYFqVLQVe4z1zujBzqjr2i7YL7K5X4Mt6UEOudW40kH2a3sXf9w8g1LaKmxkNXS4ZqCZWatRRht47LHzOX7Z1yQpLeWqu0PHKX061UOpte3KwfTuGq7g6lOGDUc= Received: by 10.65.236.14 with SMTP id n14mr6413722qbr.1169422634484; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.133.13 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:37:14 -0800 (PST) To: "Yann Dirson" In-Reply-To: <20070121232618.GD4665@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 21/01/07, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:00:57PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > I applied it but changed the patch a bit so that there is no need for > > the --to option. I understood your point but I find it a bit strange > > to have this mandatory option. Anyway, command line syntax doesn't > > have to follow the natural language exactly :-). > > Well, I thought the natural next patch to this command would be, > according to the discussions with Jakub, to make first "--to target" > optional, as a natural replacement for "stg pull . " when the > target is the parent branch, and then possibly add the ability of > running rebase from the target branch as also sugested by Jakub, > leading to the natural "rebase [|--to ]" syntax. > > Although I'm not sure we'll do that in the near future, removing the > need for --to would somewhat get in the way of this possibility. I'll go through the other e-mails tomorrow (too late here) and either add the option back or come with counter arguments :-) -- Catalin