Description Tobias Oberlies 2011-03-14 06:23:39 EDT

When rebasing through the context menu of a branch in the Repositories View, I was unsure what this will actually do. So when I just tried it out, it did something (accordig to the message through fast-forward), but still left me in the dark about what was rebased on what. Next I checked the reflog, but there was no message (and there are two entries instead of one):

$ git reflog
c2bf370 HEAD@{0}:
c2bf370 HEAD@{1}:
37f0195 HEAD@{2}: checkout: moving from refs/heads/root_patterns to 37f0195aa34a56face19d2ff7415fa10

Eventually I figured out what happened (thanks to gitk), but I still find that the context menu entry "Rebase" is far from obvious. The following things could improve the situation:

- Write a reflog message (although this only gives information after the fact)
- Change the label of "Rebase" to "Rebase HEAD onto this branch"
- Open a wizard from the context menu ("Rebase...") and explain what "Rebase" will do in the current situation.