Re: Can not rebase to first commit

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:38:16PM +0200, Eugen Konkov wrote:

I can not rebase to first commit.

This is how to reproduce:

kes@work ~/work/projects/general/Auth $ git tree
* 67857d5 (HEAD -> dev) asdf
* 1e99034 (local/dev) Initial commit
kes@work ~/work/projects/general/Auth $ git rebase -i --autostash --rebase-merges 1e99034^
fatal: invalid upstream '1e99034^'


git --version
git version 2.30.0

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Best regards,
Eugen Konkov 

This is because the first commit (1e99034) does not have a parent, so
1e99034^ cannot be resolved.

git rebase does however have an option for this: git rebase -i --root.
That allows you to rebase the root commit.

Hope this helps, Kevin