rebase: source is descendant of destination

[Haszlakiewicz, Eric]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com
[mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com]
>On Behalf Of Kastner Masilko, Friedrich
>
>Is '--detach' not working in this case? I remember trying that back
when it
>was introduced, but I'm not sure now...
>

er... I didn't try.  It wasn't obvious that that would do anything
useful.  I just tried it, but the same error occurred.  Just to be
clear, here's what I'm running:

repo revisions are linear:  1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7

 hg rebase -s 6 -d 4 --detach

I ended up getting hg to do what I wanted through a combination of
transplant and strip:
 hg up -r 4
 hg transplant 6:tip
 hg strip 6

(and now I'm just about to mark rev 5 as being a separate named branch)

I also noted this on the RebasePlan page on the wiki.

eric