Re: [PATCH 2/3] rebase: accept -<number> as another way of saying HEAD~<number>

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy [off-list ref] wrote:

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This is "rev-list style", where people can do "git rev-list -3" in
addition to "git rev-list HEAD~3". A lot of commands are driven by the
revision machinery and also accept this form. This addition to rebase
is just for convenience.

I'm seeing some pretty strange results with this. If I use -1, -2, or
-3 then it rebases the expected commits, however, -4 gives me 9
commits, and -5 rebases 35 commits. Am I misunderstanding how this
works?

Nevermind. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that I was attempting
to rebase merges.