Re: RFC: git rebase -i and root commits

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

Eric Raible wrote:

quoted

My normal workflow is to create a .gitignore in my initial commit.

When I later realize that I've forgotten something from that file
I could of course just commit the changes, but I'd rather use "git rebase -i"
in the normal way to make myself appear smarter than I am.
Especially since this realization usually comes early on
(and certainly before publishing).

But rebase can't go all the way to a root ("fatal: Needed a single revision").

I think this has been fixed recently.

No, it has not.

What has been fixed is that you can cherry-pick a root commit now, not 
rebase onto nothing.

While I am somewhat sympathetic with Eric's use case, I am not sure that 
we should support it with rebase -i.

Ciao,
Dscho