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From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git rebase command and docs questions
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:51:06 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 20:49, Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> But, in =E2=80=9Cgit rebase =E2=80=93onto master next topic=E2=80=9D=
 the meaning of the =E2=80=9Cnext
>> topic=E2=80=9D parameters is different: as I understand, it actually=
 specifies
>> a range of commits from next to topic, =C2=A0because =E2=80=93onto c=
hanges the way
>> the whole command is working, but it is not clarified in help. Is th=
at
>> correct understanding?
>
> I've never been able to remember how rebase --onto works, perhaps if
> we actually let users specify a range it would be more intuitive?
>
> $ git rebase next..topic master

I thought about it too. Even with the old syntax:

git rebase --onto master next..topic

at least as a second option the whole command would be much more
understandable for users. Currently, it fails with such range.

Thanks,
Eugene