Hi Johannes,

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi Buga,
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Igor Djordjevic wrote:
>
>> I`m really interested in this topic, which seems to (try to) address the
>> only "bad feeling" I had with rebasing merges - being afraid of silently
>> losing amendments by actually trying to "replay" the merge (where
>> additional and possibly important context is missing), instead of really
>> "rebasing" it (somehow).

[...]

> In short: while I am sympathetic to the desire to keep things simple,
> the idea to somehow side-step replaying the original merge seems to be
> *prone* to be flawed.

The proposed (TM) solution does replay the original merge.

> Any system that cannot accommodate dropped/changed/added commits on
> either side of a merge is likely to be too limited to be useful.

I believe the proposed (TM) solution handles all that nicely. It does
accommodate dropped/changed/added commits on either side of a merge,
symmetrically, and never silently drops user modifications.

If you think (TM) is flawed, please give us a test-case.

-- Sergey

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