Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I think
> git rebase [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>][..[<branch>]]
> would be a more readable syntax for what rebase is doing. Easier
> to see which argument means what without staring at the manpage.
> "..[<branch>]" without <upstream> implies --root.
I do not offhand see a huge issue if you come up with a patch that allows
users to additionally say:
$ git rebase upstream..topic
$ git rebase --onto there upstream..topic
what they express with
$ git rebase upstream topic
$ git rebase --onto there upstream topic
today.
However, "git rebase ..topic" to mean "everything down to root from topic"
is not OK; lack of one side in dotted range defaults to HEAD everywhere
else and such a change will introduce a huge discrepancy.
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