On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:24:37PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > No, a false belief in your own shortcomings, as you thought it would be > easier to address your wishes for somebody else than you.
Ah, shucks, I guess I could jump in. > But maybe I read it all wrong and you do want to make this happen > yourself, and you simply want a little advice how to go about it? Ugh, if you insist. You really know how to hold someone's feet to the fire, eh? > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:25:19PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpriti...@pobox.com> > > > wrote: > > > However IIUC currently rebase is completely rewritten/ported to C > > > where it is easier to add color support as we do have some color > > > support in there already. > > > > Sounds great. Is there a beta release that I can try out? > > There is no release as such, unless you count Git for Windows v2.10.0. Nope, that doesn't count. ;-) > But you can try the `interactive-rebase` branch of > https://github.com/dscho/git; please note, though, that my main aim was to > be as faithful as possible in the conversion (modulo speed, of course). Hm OK > > Sometimes I do a rebase to fix some tiny thing 10-15 commits from HEAD. > > Maybe only 1 file is affected and there are no merge conflicts, but when > > rebase reapplies all the commits, the timestamps of lots of unmodified > > files change even though they are unmodified compared to before the > > rebase. > > Well, they *were* modified, right? Were they? Isn't that just an artefact of the implementation? > A workaround would be to create a new worktree using the awesome `git > worktree` command, perform the rebase there (on an unnamed branch -- AKA > "detached HEAD", no relation to Helloween), and then come back to the > original worktree and reset --hard to the new revision. That reset would > detect that there are actually no changes required to said files. What would be the problem with doing this by default? Or could it be a configuration option that can be enabled? -- Joshua N. Pritikin, Ph.D. Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics Virginia Commonwealth University PO Box 980126 800 E Leigh St, Biotech One, Suite 1-133 Richmond, VA 23219 http://people.virginia.edu/~jnp3bc
