From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: git rebase command and docs questions Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 22:37:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Eugene Sajine X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 09 22:37:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0KxU-0000jY-TC for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:37:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755384Ab0DIUhk convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:37:40 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:48791 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753603Ab0DIUhj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:37:39 -0400 Received: by gwj19 with SMTP id 19so10222gwj.19 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:37:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7yPszLw2si9xON4AxRZP/oQi9WANYlMiF0qMb9w3bkQ=; b=NhxcO+fBFZh4Gsf2oMvZ0BxDtWNcFP0ugU8aQw66mw8MByNTq4CqBWQgRGmGnmEwMc Rw9G1ykhWm32za0foknL3MNx+45qhX4mbdbD/bESMgY29NnN+rPAh/OFjocezy78lrua bYKc82wGRIBaCdIeqXTpjdPWpfLhocBNwG0AU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=m+cB9PKetltGTTuBZNYCE3YgK6rTBLs05chZaSzMVE87NR9FVlcw8JbEHndEEdCQcy NTfpn/37PMuukyWkRXohSJsVQ6Op823k5dIw14+LDudWhfy38eePYf27fkXVS2RM24Ea MBWCLeq/QgybHB1bhMThvNXu4D4tzkvbxuNtw= Received: by 10.100.206.13 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:37:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received: by 10.101.202.17 with SMTP id e17mr944021anq.73.1270845457355; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 20:49, Eugene Sajine 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 ch= anges the way > the whole command is working, but it is not clarified in help. Is tha= t > 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 --=20 Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier