Re: master c6f03ed: Fix a problem in url.el without GnuTLS

[Dmitry Gutov]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> When you rebase a commit, it becomes a new one. Therefore, you can only
>> safely rebase "local" commits (meaning: commits only *you* have).
>
> If "safely" here means "while preserving the commit's sha1", then it's
> quite obvious.

Rebasing *never* preserves a commit's SHA.  So basically, you always get
a set of new commits that look very much like the old ones.

> at all, even when rebase=preserve was/is used?

What rebase=preserve does, is "pass --preserve-merges along to git
rebase so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened"
(quoting the 'git pull' man page).