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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
Cc: Christopher Fretz <cfretz@icloud.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git rebase --root bug
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:16:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZF0U6tneDjLfGxf1@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <288a9935-264b-4dc5-0d63-200c310f326e@gmail.com>

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> The cause of the problem is that --root creates an empty commit (known as
> "squash_onto" in the code) which it uses as the "onto" commit. When it picks
> the first commit in the todo list the "onto" commit is amended and so is
> unreachable when the reflog is expired above. I think the best fix would be
> to stop pretending that we have a real "onto" commit when --root is used
> without --onto and either store "new root" .git/rebase-merge/onto or not
> create that file at all.

Wouldn't it suffice to consider the squash_onto commit as reachable the
same way we do for `--indexed-objects`?

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-11 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-10 20:08 git rebase --root bug Christopher Fretz
2023-05-10 20:35 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-05-11  4:07   ` Christopher Fretz
2023-05-11 14:21 ` Phillip Wood
2023-05-11 16:16   ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2023-05-11 19:52     ` Christopher Fretz
2023-05-12 15:18     ` Phillip Wood

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