Subject: Re: RFC: Renaming "git rebase --onto"

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:03:19 -0700

Jonathon Mah wrote:

> Personally, I understand “git-rebase --onto new-base old-base” as
> meaning “rebase from old-base to new-base”. Some prepositions that
> might make this clearer:
>
> $ git rebase --from old-base new-base  # “Rebase HEAD onto new-base, from old-base"

Would having an option name for the old-base argument help?

For example:

	git rebase --old-base=<old-base> --onto=<new-base> <branch>

?

Thanks,
Jonathan