Re: [PATCH/RFC] rebase -p: do not redo the merge, but cherry-pick first-parent changes

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Am 25.05.2012 18:58, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> First-parentship. When a topic or an integration branch is rebased (with
>> --preserve-merges), only the first-parent chain should be rewritten.
> 
> While I think the "start from commit T and down to where it branches off
> of 'master', rebuild first-parent chain on top of elsewhere" mode has
> uses, there is no way it can co-exist under the same option name with the
> current "transplant the DAG as a whole on top of elsewhere, preserving the
> topology inside the DAG" mode.

Fair enough.

>  The name "preserve merges" clicks with the
> latter mode better than the former mode, at least to me.  Perhaps the
> other mode can be called "rebase --first-parent" or something?

Sounds good. I'll take this route.

-- Hannes
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