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rebase -i: introduce --rebase-merges=[no-]rebase-cousins
When running `git rebase --rebase-merges` non-interactively with an ancestor of HEAD as <upstream> (or leaving the todo list unmodified), we would ideally recreate the exact same commits as before the rebase. However, if there are commits in the commit range <upstream>.. that do not have <upstream> as direct ancestor (i.e. if `git log <upstream>..` would show commits that are omitted by `git log --ancestry-path <upstream>..`), this is currently not the case: we would turn them into commits that have <upstream> as direct ancestor. Let's illustrate that with a diagram: C / \ A - B - E - F \ / D Currently, after running `git rebase -i --rebase-merges B`, the new branch structure would be (pay particular attention to the commit `D`): --- C' -- / \ A - B ------ E' - F' \ / D' This is not really preserving the branch topology from before! The reason is that the commit `D` does not have `B` as ancestor, and therefore it gets rebased onto `B`. This is unintuitive behavior. Even worse, when recreating branch structure, most use cases would appear to want cousins *not* to be rebased onto the new base commit. For example, Git for Windows (the heaviest user of the Git garden shears, which served as the blueprint for --rebase-merges) frequently merges branches from `next` early, and these branches certainly do *not* want to be rebased. In the example above, the desired outcome would look like this: --- C' -- / \ A - B ------ E' - F' \ / -- D' -- Let's introduce the term "cousins" for such commits ("D" in the example), and let's not rebase them by default. For hypothetical use cases where cousins *do* need to be rebased, `git rebase --rebase=merges=rebase-cousins` needs to be used. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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