Re: git rebase command and docs questions

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref] wrote:

Heya,

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 20:49, Eugene Sajine [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

But, in “git rebase –onto master next topic” the meaning of the “next
topic” parameters is different: as I understand, it actually specifies
a range of commits from next to topic,  because –onto changes the way
the whole command is working, but it is not clarified in help. Is that
correct understanding?

I've never been able to remember how rebase --onto works, perhaps if
we actually let users specify a range it would be more intuitive?

$ git rebase next..topic master

I thought about it too. Even with the old syntax:

git rebase --onto master next..topic

at least as a second option the whole command would be much more
understandable for users. Currently, it fails with such range.

Thanks,
Eugene