Re: Limitiations of git rebase --preserve-merges --interactive

Anatoly Borodin [off-list ref] wrote:

PS There are also some pieces of "what should work" in these tests:

t/t3409-rebase-preserve-merges.sh*
t/t3410-rebase-preserve-dropped-merges.sh*
t/t3411-rebase-preserve-around-merges.sh*
t/t3414-rebase-preserve-onto.sh*

Thanks, this is interesting; I'm having trouble understanding the tests
though. Some of them use rebase -p -i, but I don't understand why they
use -i, or why that even works in a test (i.e. why it doesn't open an
editor).

In one test I saw "GIT_EDITOR=: git rebase -i -p", which I guess means
"use the initially given todo sheet unchanged". I don't see any tests
that do an interactive rebase and actually change the todo list.


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