Re: git rebase -i

2009/2/19 Wincent Colaiuta [off-list ref]:

El 19/2/2009, a las 10:21, John Tapsell escribió:

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Hi,

 I often do   'git rebase -i HEAD~10'  to rebase.  Since afaics it
doesn't matter if you go back 'too far' I just always use HEAD~10 even
if it's just for the last or so commit.

 Would there be any objections to making  'git rebase -i' default to
HEAD~10  or maybe 16 or 20.

Sounds awfully arbitrary and counter-intuitive to me.

Take a sample of Git users who know what "git rebase" does and ask them what
they intuitively think "git rebase -i" without any additional arguments
should do; I'd be _extremely_ surprised if they answered that it should
default to HEAD~10, HEAD~16, HEAD~20, or HEAD~N for any N.

(I could tell you what my intuition tells me, but I don't think it's very
interesting.)

It doesn't really matter if the user manages to guess what the number
N is, just that it's "recent commits".

If a sample of git users would expect "git rebase -i" to let you
rebase the last few commits, then it doesn't really matter all that
much what N is.  10 seems a reasonable default as any.

John