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

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Matthieu Moy

quoted

This would actually be a feature for me: I often want to rebase "recent
enough" history, and when my @{upstream} isn't well positionned, I
randomly type HEAD~N without remembering what N should be. When N is too
small, the rebase doesn't reach the interesting commit, and when N is
too big, it reaches a merge commit and I get a bunch of commits I'm not
allowed to edit in my todo-list. Then I have to abort the commit
manually. With -N failing on merge commits, the rebase would abort
itself automatically.

would "git rebase -i --fork-point" be what you need instead?

I don't think so. My use case is when I did a manual merge, so
@{upstream} is helpless or even not positionned. There is for sure an
accurate command (remember the branch I just merged and put it on the
command-line), but my fingers prefer typing quick and dirty commands and
hope I won't get too many trial and error cycles ;-).

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