On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:43:16AM +0300, Nikita Orlov wrote: > Hello, my name is Nikita (male). > > Could you explain this (subject) is a bug or a feature? > > [snip] > > "Some independent changes 1" is missed and its changes are missed as well. > > I tried to move another commit to a farther distance below but there was > still only one missed commit. > > Could you explain it? > > Thank you in advance and sorry for my English. > > Best, Nikita
[man git-rebase][0] mentions this under the bug section: > The todo list presented by --preserve-merges --interactive does not > represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and > rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to > reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. Not sure if this is the case here, but it at least confirms that rebase --preserve-merges was not meant to reorder commits. See [this][1] thread for more background on this limitation. [0]:https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_bugs [1]:https://public-inbox.org/git/1mtveu4.19lvgi1c0hmham%25li...@haller-berlin.de/
