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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git rebase command and docs questions
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:37:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r2mfabb9a1e1004091337w8ec2b721y3a5082d5e0f5925c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h2j76c5b8581004091149y9f5f93a8o5f11b3ffc657623@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 20:49, Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> wrote:
> But, in “git rebase –onto master next topic” the meaning of the “next
> topic” parameters is different: as I understand, it actually specifies
> a range of commits from next to topic,  because –onto changes the way
> the whole command is working, but it is not clarified in help. Is that
> 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

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09 18:49 git rebase command and docs questions Eugene Sajine
2010-04-09 20:37 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-04-09 20:51   ` Eugene Sajine
2010-04-09 21:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-09 21:23     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-10 22:30       ` Eugene Sajine
2010-04-10 22:32         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-10 22:40           ` Eugene Sajine

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