Re: [BUG] - git rebase -i performs rebase when it shouldn't?

[Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>]

>
>> Come on! Please, please, explain me why it behaves DIFFERENTLY:
>>
>> esajine@ESAJINEWWW /c/git_repos/test2 (topic)
>> $ git rebase --onto master topic
>> First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
>> fatal: Not a range.
>> Nothing to do.
>>                 <======== topic..HEAD is not a range, agreed
>>
>>
>> esajine@ESAJINEWWW /c/git_repos/test2 (topic)
>> $ git rebase -i --onto master topic
>> Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/topic. <=== BUG – here it
>> printed me “noop” in file to edit, when I exited it should do nothing,
>> but it still did something and I double checked it.
>
> A historical accident, so to say. The implementor of interactive rebase
> felt the "noop" behavior was useful, and I agree, FWIW.
>
> -- Hannes
>

IMHO this "noop" behavior seems to be identical to "git reset --hard
master" - the result is the same. Frankly, I don't understand what is
useful in such thing being HIDDEN in "incorrect call" of interactive
rebase...

Thanks,
Eugene