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From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Subject: Suggestion: rebase [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>][..[<branch>]]
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I think
	git rebase [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>][..[<branch>]]
would be a more readable syntax for what rebase is doing.  Easier
to see which argument means what without staring at the manpage.
"..[<branch>]" without <upstream> implies --root.

-- 
Hallvard