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
>

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