Hi, On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: > From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > If the upstream argument to rebase (the first argument) was relative to > HEAD and the name of the branch to rebase (the second argument) was given, > the upstream would have been interpreted relative to the second argument. > In particular, this command > > git rebase -i HEAD topic > > would always finish with "Nothing to do". (a1bf91e fixed the same issue > for non-interactive rebase.) > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > I made this with -U5 so that you can see the checkout in the context. > > BTW, methinks, this checkout is unnecessary, since before the rebase > begins, there is a 'git checkout $ONTO', and the branch switching is > certainly not needed to compute the todo list... It is needed to determine which branch to update after finish. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
