Re: Suggestion: rebase [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>][..[<branch>]]

Hallvard Breien Furuseth [off-list ref] writes:

I think
	git rebase [--onto <newbase>] [<upstream>][..[<branch>]]
would be a more readable syntax for what rebase is doing.  Easier
to see which argument means what without staring at the manpage.
"..[<branch>]" without <upstream> implies --root.

I do not offhand see a huge issue if you come up with a patch that allows
users to additionally say:

    $ git rebase upstream..topic
    $ git rebase --onto there upstream..topic

what they express with

    $ git rebase upstream topic
    $ git rebase --onto there upstream topic

today.

However, "git rebase ..topic" to mean "everything down to root from topic"
is not OK; lack of one side in dotted range defaults to HEAD everywhere
else and such a change will introduce a huge discrepancy.