Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This might be a reason that "-NUM" is a bad idea. > > Or perhaps "-NUM" should fail with an error message if any of the last > NUM commits are merges. In that restricted scenario (which probably > accounts for 99% of rebases), "-NUM" is equivalent to "HEAD~NUM". That sounds like one possible way out; the opposite would be to enable mode that preserges merges when we see any. If "rebase" had a "--first-parent" mode that simply replays only the commits on the first parent chain, merging the same second and later parents without looking at their history when dealing with merge commits, and always used that mode unless "--flatten-history" was given, the world might have been a better place. We cannot go there in a single step, but we could plan such a backward incompatible migration if we wanted to. -- 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