Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Why? Is it more like "--root implies --force"? > > It doesn't currently exactly imply --force, but the effect is the > same. Also see my reply to Junio's email in this thread. > > Maybe Chris has some thoughts on this? Hi Martin and Johannes. Sorry for the slow follow-up here. You're right that rebase --root without --onto always creates a brand new root as a result of the implementation using a sentinel commit. Clearly this is what's wanted with --interactive, but rebase --root with neither --onto nor --interactive is a slightly odd combination for which I struggle to imagine a natural use. Perhaps you're right that for consistency it should be a no-op unless --force-rebase is given? If we did this, this combination would be a no-op unconditionally as by definition we're always descended from the root of our current commit. However, given the not-very-useful behaviour, I suspect that rebase --root is much more likely to be a mistyped version of rebase -i --root than rebase --root --force-rebase. (Unless I'm missing a reasonable use for this? History linearisation perhaps?) Best wishes, Chris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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