git rebase question

[Anand Sivaram <aspnair@gmail.com>]

I am trying to understand the different aspects of git rebase, especially

the "--onto" option.  So I was going through "git help rebase".

That made me consider a few other scenarios.

1. The first example is "git rebase master" or "git rebase master topic"

But if we want to use "--onto" option, this would become

git rebase --onto master E topic

or

git checkout topic

git rebase --onto master E

Where E is ether the commit hash of E, HEAD~3, master~3 or any other tag/branch

attribute of E in case there are any.

Is it correct?

2. In the same example, when we do

git rebase --onto F E topic

Does the output become the following?

          A'--B'--C' topic

         /

D---E---F---G master

3. In the same example, suppose we do

git rebase --onto master B topic

The output will become

             C' topic

            /

D---E---F---G master

Is it like cherry picking just C

git cherry-pick C

Could anyone verify these answers?

Thanks and Regards

Anand