Re: [PATCH v1] rebase -m: Use empty tree base for parentless commits

2014-10-09 Thread David M. Lloyd
On 10/09/2014 01:50 PM, Fabian Ruch wrote: Hi David, I don't think you made a mistake at all. If I understand the --merge mode of git-rebase correctly there is no need to require a parent. The error occurs when the script tries to determine the changes your merge commit introduces, which include

Apparent bug in git rebase with a merge commit

2014-10-07 Thread David M. Lloyd
If you have a git tree and you merge in another, independent git tree so that they are the same, using a merge strategy like this: $ git merge importing/master -s recursive -Xours And if you later on want to rebase this merge commit on a newer upstream for whatever reason, you get something li