Re: rebase vs rebase -i

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Jay Soffian wrote:

Why does git rebase use format-patch + am, while rebase -i uses 
cherry-pick?

Hysterical raisins. 'rebase -i' started out as 'edit-patch-series.sh', 
hacked together in 4 hours on a lazy Saturday afternoon:
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2007-02-27#l97

Ah, the old days. Back when I had enough time to read through Peff's 
mails. And back when I had enough time to cobble together fun Git scripts.

Just curious. In particular though, it seems especially odd in this 
case:

$ git rebase --onto <newbase> <upstream>

vs

$ env GIT_EDITOR=true git rebase -i --onto <newbase> <upstream>

Both in theory produce an identical end-result, while using two
different implementations.

(Here I'm setting GIT_EDITOR=true just to demonstrate that I didn't
change the list of commits in the latter case.)

You can get _exactly_ the same behavior if you use -m.

Ciao,
Dscho