Question

$ git --version
git version 1.7.6

$ git rebase -i :/^major
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream :/^major

Reading gitrevisions(7) and googling, I still can’t figure this out. I understand for some reason :^/major returns the whole revision range (tested with git log), instead of only commits where messages start with major. Let’s assume in this case I actually do have only one commit message starting with “major”. This to me is not clear from documentation. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Try:

git rebase -i $(git rev-parse :/^major)

It looks like the command should work, but git rebase doesn’t parse the revision that way. Smells like a bug/unintended feature to me.