Hi Dscho, On 11/03/2018 13:11, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > I did wonder about using 'pick <original-merge>' for rebasing merges > > > and keeping 'merge ...' for recreating them but I'm not sure if that > > > is a good idea. It has the advantage that the user cannot specify the > > > wrong parents for the merge to be rebased as 'git rebase' would work > > > out if the parents have been rebased, but maybe it's a bit magical to > > > use pick for merge commits. Also there isn't such a simple way for the > > > user to go from 'rabase this merge' to 'recreate this merge' as they'd > > > have to write the whole merge line themselves (though I guess > > > something like emacs' git-rebase.el would be able to help with that) > > > > Since the ultimate commit hashes of newly rebased commits would be > > unknown at the time of writing the todo file, I'm not sure how this > > would work to specify the parents? > > I agree with Phillip's follow-up that the `pick <original-merge>` syntax > would pose a problem, but for different reasons: We already tried it, with > --preserve-merges, and it is just a really stupid syntax that does not > allow the user even to reorder commits. Or drop commits (except at the > very end of the todo list).
Hehe, please excuse me, but in the light of that other explicit (or not) parent mapping discussion[1], I would take a chance to be really sneaky here and say that being non-explicit "is just a really stupid syntax that does not allow the user even to reorder rebased merge parents. Or drop parents (except at the very end of the parent list)." ;) [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/b329bb98-f9d6-3d51-2513-465aad2fa...@gmail.com/
