On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Right now, the sequence is: > > git checkout mine # if required > git rebase --onto his origin vs > git checkout his > git cherry-pick origin..mine Btw, I realize that the advantage of "git rebase" is that it doesn't change somebody elses branch. However, we'd still be a lot better off with us simply doing the equivalent of something like git checkout -b new-mine his && git cherry-pick origin..mine && git rename-branch -f new-mine mine instead of what git-rebase does now. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html