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pkg-merge-*: Add --rebase-range to rebase rather than merge

Emanuele Aina requested to merge wip/em/pkg-merge-rebase into apertis/v2022pre

When downstreams need to mirror our packaging repositories they need to pull the latest but also preserve the downstream changes they introduced.

For instance assume that a downstream has a downstream/v2021 branch that is based on apertis/v2021-updates (based on Buster) plus some customization and needs to mirror apertis/v2022dev3 (based on Bullseye) while preserving the customization.

Naively doing a merge would hit conflicts since the apertis/v2021-updates has diverged from the point where apertis/v2022dev3 has been branched, and the Buster updates would not apply on the Bullseye-based branch.

The most sensible option is to rebase the changes: if there are no downstream changes (the most common case) this becomes a no-op and the process can proceed easily, otherwise it still has a good chance to be able to apply simple customizations.

Edited by Emanuele Aina

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