Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> This is "rev-list style", where people can do "git rev-list -3" in >>> addition to "git rev-list HEAD~3". A lot of commands are driven by the >>> revision machinery and also accept this form. This addition to rebase >>> is just for convenience. >> >> I'm seeing some pretty strange results with this. If I use -1, -2, or >> -3 then it rebases the expected commits, however, -4 gives me 9 >> commits, and -5 rebases 35 commits. Am I misunderstanding how this >> works? > > Nevermind. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that I was attempting > to rebase merges. Your remark is actually interesting. Most (all?) Git commands taking -<n> as parameters act on n commits, regardless of merges. So, this commit creates an inconsistency between e.g. "git log -3" (show last 3 commits) and "git rebase -3" (rebase up to HEAD~3, but there may be more commits in case there are merges). I don't have a better proposal, but at least the inconsistancy should be documented (e.g. "note that this is different from what other commands like 'git log' do when used with a -<number> option since ..." in the manpage). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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