Re: [PATCH (v2) 2/2] rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

2010/1/7 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> I am a bit unhappy about the duplication.  The text of this function is
> different from the one in "rebase" proper, but they implement essentially
> the same logic.  I was tempted to suggest having a common helper function,
> but as Dscho mentioned "rebase -i" implementation does not share much with
> "rebase" (even though it shares the external command line interface from
> the end user's point of view), and I don't see a readily available place
> (other than in git-sh-setup) to do so.

Is there a reason that non-interactive rebase can't just be
implemented as "git rebase -i" but without actually launching an
editor to edit the commit list?

This would resolve any other inconsistencies between the two as well,
notably that non-interactive rebase sometimes refuses to do the rebase
I requested because "Current branch master is up to date," while
interactive rebase is willing to do it.  (Personally I prefer the
latter behaviour, since I don't like tools that think they're smarter
than me :))

Avery