On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 7:45 PM Phillip Susi <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > If HEAD and v2.35.0 share the same tree, it _should_ be possible > > to recreate the commits that make up the range v2.35.0..v2.36.0-rc1 > > on top of HEAD without requiring any real "rebasing". Just creating > > Isn't that literally the definition of rebase? > Well, yeah. :-) What I mean is to skip the rebase _engine_. No merging/cherry-picking/conflicts along the way of recreating the new revisions. Say, clone the exact same revisions that we want to _rebase_ and adjust their parents, nothing else (or little else, like adjusting the committer).