[RFC] rebase --collapse

[Stefano Tortarolo]

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>   % hg rebase --source 2
>   abort: cannot rebase an ancestor

Currently if --dest is not specified it defaults to branch head, you
should try with hg rebase -s 2 -d 1.
It's not very intuitive I guess, maybe I'll write a note somewhere or
change its behaviour.

> One final suggestion I would like to make is to add in key places of the
> rebase extension debugging output.  The command
> 
>   % hg --debug rebase --source 2
>   abort: cannot rebase an ancestor
>   %
> 
> is not very useful right now.  But it could be made a lot more useful if
> we added tracing/debugging output to `rebase.py' that showed what it is
> trying to do while it runs.

You have to use hg rebase --debug.

[ste at nyrael rebase-soc-collapse]$ hg rebase
nothing to rebase
[ste at nyrael rebase-soc-collapse]$ hg rebase --debug
already working on current
nothing to rebase

Cheers,
Stefano

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