On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Rémi Vanicat <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hannu Koivisto <[email protected]> writes: > > [...] > > > > > Nothing ultimately prevents me from doing that, but this change > > makes it so difficult (simple point and shoot in the status buffer > > is not enough, I have to write the base (with completion, but > > still) or open the log buffer, move over the base and then hit 'r b > > RET') that it is not acceptable. > > After testing, it seem that the simper is to go on the first unpushed > commit, do r b, then go down in history: the default value appear. You > just have to add ~1 to have the one you want. > > But in fact, the main problem I see with rewrite as it is working now in > head is that if I say to magit "I want to rewrite commit master~6" (that > is r b master~6 RET) then master~6 won't be rewrote, and this seam strange > to me. I believe we should just revert the commit. If no objection, I > will probably do it this week-end. > > [...] > That is a behavior of git. I would strongly oppose any change that would make magit inconsistent with git. That would be very confusing for those who actually use git directly. > -- > Rémi Vanicat >
