Re: [PATCH] provide a new "theirs" strategy, useful for rebase --onto

Paolo Bonzini [off-list ref] writes:

   #! /bin/sh
   # git-merge-after-amend <branch>
   #
   # Makes it possible to do a fast-forward merge of <branch>
   # into HEAD, assuming that the first diverging commit of <branch>
   # is an --amend'ed version of the first diverging commit of HEAD.

Can this strong special case limitation "only the first one can be the
amend" somehow be loosened?  Otherwise I suspect it would not be useful as
a general solution.