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Subject: Re: switching upstream tips
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2009/5/13 Ittay Dror <ittay.dror@gmail.com>:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> I guess it should have been
>>
>> =C2=A0 git rebase -i --onto new-upstream old-upstream master
>>
>> That is, you take commits old-upstream..master and transplant them o=
nto
>> new-upstream.
>>
>
> same thing:
>> git rebase -i --onto upstream old-upstream master
> fatal: Needed a single revision
> Does not point to a valid commit: upstream

Well, don't put random characters where your branch names should be.