Re: [PATCH 7/7] Add an optional limit to git-rebase

Yann Dirson [off-list ref] writes:

This patch adds a limit to restrict the list of patches to rebase.

This is useful when a set of patches were done against a given head,
but needs to be ported to a different head, as opposed to being ported
to a descendant of the original head.  In such a case we only want to
port our own patches, not those that make the two branches different
upstream.

This usage makes sense, independent from your git-format-patch
"limit" patch.  The patched argument to git-format-patch does
not match your git-format-patch changes AFAICT ;-).

-git-format-patch -k --stdout --full-index "$other" ORIG_HEAD |
+git-format-patch -k --stdout --full-index "$other" ORIG_HEAD $limit |

If all you want to do is to move the cut-off point more recent
than the merge base is, how about (without your git-format-patch
changes) doing something stupid like this instead?

  git-format-patch -k --stdout --full-index ${limit:-"$other"} ORIG_HEAD