Thomas Rast wrote:
>> Please take a closer look at the last two test cases that specify the
>> expected behaviour of rebasing a branch that tracks the empty tree.
>> At this point they expect the "Nothing to do" error (aborts with
>> untouched history). This is consistent with rebasing only empty
Hi Fabian
Impressive analysis!
> Concerning the bugfix: Obviously, the patch misuses the `squash_onto`
> flag because it assumes that the new base is empty except for the
> sentinel commit. The variable name does not imply anything close to
> that. An additional flag to disable the use of the git
git-rebase supports the option `--root` both with and without
`--onto`. In rebase root mode it replays all commits reachable from a
branch on top of another branch, including the very first commit. In
case `--onto` is not specified, that other branch is temporarily
provided by creating an empty com
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