Re: RFC: Renaming git rebase --onto

2015-04-02 Thread Michael J Gruber
Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 30.03.2015 23:12: Jonathon Mah m...@jonathonmah.com writes: During a few years of discussing git operations with colleagues, I’ve found the “git rebase --onto” operation particularly ambiguous. The reason is that I always describe a rebase operation as

Re: RFC: Renaming git rebase --onto

2015-03-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathon Mah wrote: Personally, I understand “git-rebase --onto new-base old-base” as meaning “rebase from old-base to new-base”. Some prepositions that might make this clearer: $ git rebase --from old-base new-base # “Rebase HEAD onto new-base, from old-base Would having an option name

RFC: Renaming git rebase --onto

2015-03-30 Thread Jonathon Mah
During a few years of discussing git operations with colleagues, I’ve found the “git rebase --onto” operation particularly ambiguous. The reason is that I always describe a rebase operation as “onto” something else (because of the English phrase “A is based on B”). For example: $ git rebase

Re: RFC: Renaming git rebase --onto

2015-03-30 Thread Max Kirillov
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 01:49:34PM -0700, Jonathon Mah wrote: During a few years of discussing git operations with colleagues, I’ve found the “git rebase --onto” operation particularly ambiguous. The reason is that I always describe a rebase operation as “onto” something else (because of the

Re: RFC: Renaming git rebase --onto

2015-03-30 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathon Mah m...@jonathonmah.com writes: During a few years of discussing git operations with colleagues, I’ve found the “git rebase --onto” operation particularly ambiguous. The reason is that I always describe a rebase operation as “onto” something else (because of the English phrase “A is