Re: [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag

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On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:08:22PM +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2009.12.08 16:47:42 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Add --revisions flag to rebase, so that it can be used
> > to apply an arbitrary range of commits on top
> > of a current branch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > I've been wishing for this functionality for a while now,
> > so here goes. This isn't yet properly documented and I didn't
> > write a test, but the patch seems to work fine for me.
> > Any early flames/feedback?
> 
> This pretty much reverses what rebase normally does. Instead of "rebase
> this onto that" it's "'rebase' that onto this". And instead of updating
> the branch head that got rebased, the, uhm, "upstream" gets updated.

The last sentence is wrong I think - it is still the branch head that
is updated.
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