Re: cookbook question

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 06:08:03PM -0500, Kyle Rose wrote:

The rebase just avoids unnecessary merge records.  What I really want is my 
changes placed on top of whatever the common head is at any one time, which 
by design means I would use rebase.  Aside from the cleanliness of the 
history, I'm not sure there is a real reason to do this.  But I like things 
clean. ;-)

rebase should just reorder the patches in the simple cases, so it
should do what you want. Either you've found a bug in rebase or you're
doing something unconventional.