On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> John Keeping wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:18:45PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>>> I somehow thought that rebase by default looked in the reflog to do
>>>> exactly that. Perhaps I am not remembering correctly.
>>>
>>> It just does @{upstream} by default, which tends to get messy if the
>>> upstream has been rewritten.
>>
>> Maybe Junio is thinking of 'git pull --rebase', which walks the reflog
>> until it finds an ancestor of the current branch and uses that as the
>> <upstream> parameter to rebase.
>
> You're right.
>
> It makes me wonder why we did that one inside pull and not in
> rebase, though.

Because there's a huge difference between:

git rebase @{u}@{1} --onto @{u}

And

git rebase @{u}

I was in the process of fixing that, but you stopped me.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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