Re: rebase --root conflicts with --committer-date-is-author-date

Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Chris, do you remember if there was a reason why it was a bad idea to teach the normal rebase codepath to handle --root? I think we would have needed to allow am to apply a creation patch and start a new history on an unborn branch in order to do so,

Re: rebase --root conflicts with --committer-date-is-author-date

I think that the reason for this behaviour is that rebase --root implicitly forces rebase -i to run (instead of the 'format-patch piped to am'), and --committer-date-is-author-date is not supported by the rebase -i codepath at all. I see Thomas did rebase --root support in v1.6.2 era both in the

rebase --root conflicts with --committer-date-is-author-date

version: git version 2.1.4 Linux wolke-w520 3.19.3-towo.1-siduction-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT siduction 3.19-9 (2015-03-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux summary: if i do `git rebase --committer-date-is-author-date --root', the committer date is set to now, instead of set to the