On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 06:29:55AM +0100, "Marcel 'childNo͡.de' Trautwein" 
wrote:

> shows me a quite different behavior, so solely rebase not seems the full 
> problem
> BUT
> `--rebase=preserve` will .. o’man , really, is this intended?

Yeah, the bug seems to be in --preserve-merges. Here's an easier
reproduction:

  git init
  >one && git add one && git commit -m one
  git checkout --orphan other
  git mv one two && git commit -m two

  git rebase --preserve-merges master

at which point we've dropped commit "two" and its files entirely.

I don't know much about how preserve-merges works. It looks like in the
loop around git-rebase--interactive.sh:931 that we mark commit "two"
with preserve=t, and so we _don't_ add it to the list of commits to
pick.

I think that stems from the fact that it has no parent marked to be
rewritten.

So something like this helps:

diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 81c5b42875..71e6cbb388 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -921,15 +921,20 @@ else
 
                if test -z "$rebase_root"
                then
                        preserve=t
+                       p=
                        for p in $(git rev-list --parents -1 $sha1 | cut -d' ' 
-s -f2-)
                        do
                                if test -f "$rewritten"/$p
                                then
                                        preserve=f
                                fi
                        done
+                       if test -z "$p"
+                       then
+                               preserve=f
+                       fi
                else
                        preserve=f
                fi
                if test f = "$preserve"

Because it at least adds "two" to the list of commits to pick. But
oddly, it picks it directly as a root commit again. Whereas a rebase
without --preserve-merges (and even "-i") picks it on top of commit
"one" (which is what I'd expect).

+cc Dscho, as the --preserve-merges guru.

-Peff

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