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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Zhang <zhgdrx@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why "git rebase" searching the duplicate patches in <upstream branch> rather than in <new base branch>?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:36:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqczrdhu9q.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6mhgxv4.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (Sergey Organov's message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:04:15 +0300")

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> Similar problem should exist for explicitly specified <upstream> that
> might happen to have little in common with the current <branch>, right?

I do not think so.  Plain-vanilla rebase is to carry forward our
changes on top of updated upstream, which means that there is

            x--x--x (side)
           /
   ---o---o---o---o---o---o (upstream)
          ^
       (old upstream)

inherently ancestry relationship between the old upstream and the
current upstream when rebasing 'side' to 'upstream'.

> I don't actually like this.

You do not have to ;-) because I was not suggesting to change any
existing behaviour.  It was merely me thinking aloud, how I might
do the feature if I were designing it from scratch now.

> Overall, it seems that we should take the <newbase> rather than
> <upstream> (that is still <upstream> when --onto is not specified), and
> apply the skipping logic from there, to whatever depth the merge-base
> will give us. If it's already implemented this way, then only the manual
> page needs to be fixed.

Sounds sensible.  I didn't check what the actual code does ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-20 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJcwCMPU9EhRkqeei_LnYyTJRZUQgHCvomrBbW0Qn+Jp1yhQfQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-19 17:45 ` why "git rebase" searching the duplicate patches in <upstream branch> rather than in <new base branch>? Andy Zhang
2021-07-19 18:17   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-19 22:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-20  9:04     ` Sergey Organov
2021-07-20 15:36       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-07-20 16:44         ` Sergey Organov
2021-08-01  8:59     ` Andy Zhang

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