The branch-flipping rebase internally does is not 'checkout' as far as the end-user is concerned; therefore, rebase should never write "checkout: " messages to the reflog. To achieve this, set a sensible GIT_REFLOG_ACTION; checkout does not respect this variable yet, but a future patch will change this. After that patch, rebase will write the following line to the reflog when started: rebase: checkout master This is much better than the confusing message it currently writes: checkout: moving from master to 1462b67 Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-rebase.sh | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh index d0c11a9..6587019 100755 --- a/git-rebase.sh +++ b/git-rebase.sh @@ -568,6 +568,8 @@ test "$type" = interactive && run_specific_rebase # Detach HEAD and reset the tree say "$(gettext "First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...")" + +GIT_REFLOG_ACTION="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: checkout $onto_name" git checkout -q "$onto^0" || die "could not detach HEAD" git update-ref ORIG_HEAD $orig_head -- 1.8.3.1.443.g4fd77b9 -- 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