From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqiqcgp95t.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfx7lcj18.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue\, 08 Dec 2009 12\:22\:59 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> So perhaps a good way to move forward is to teach "git cherry-pick A..B"
> to be a thin wrapper that invokes a new hidden mode of operation added to
> "rebase" that is not advertised to the end user.
>
> I would suggest calling the option to invoke that hidden mode not
> "--revisions", but "--reverse" or "--opposite" or something of that
> nature, though. It makes "rebase" work in different direction.
Intuitively,
git rebase --reverse A..B
would mean "take the range A..B, and start applying the patches from
B, going in reverse order up to A", like "git log --reverse". So, I'd
find it misleading.
Perhaps "git rebase --cherry-pick A..B" would be a better name. No
objection for --opposite either.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-09 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-08 14:47 [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-08 16:08 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-08 16:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-08 16:41 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-08 16:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-08 19:13 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-08 16:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-08 16:37 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-08 16:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-08 19:11 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-08 20:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 13:19 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 14:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 4:51 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-08 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-08 20:29 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-12-09 5:30 ` Christian Couder
2009-12-09 6:52 ` Christian Couder
2009-12-09 9:08 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-12-09 8:47 ` Peter Krefting
2009-12-09 9:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 10:52 ` Peter Krefting
2009-12-09 11:22 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 11:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-09 12:06 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 12:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 13:06 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-10 7:43 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-10 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-11 11:07 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 13:20 ` Peter Krefting
2009-12-09 13:41 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-10 8:43 ` Peter Krefting
2009-12-10 11:08 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 10:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 10:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-12-09 13:30 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-12-09 13:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 14:01 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-12-09 14:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-12-09 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-13 22:47 ` David Kågedal
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