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authorLibravatar Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>2011-03-14 11:47:37 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-03-14 10:52:23 -0700
commitee55703bace45760c3385d00c9056d6f6f644229 (patch)
treeee22cdb6d292a4af045722a298605faf921382a3
parentobject.h: Remove obsolete struct object_refs (diff)
downloadtgif-ee55703bace45760c3385d00c9056d6f6f644229.tar.xz
Documentation: "rebase <onto> <that>" stays on <that> branch upon exit
This change makes it clearer that the change to the history effected by executing 'git rebase master' while on 'topic' branch, and by executing 'git rebase master topic' on any branch, will be the same; the implicit checkout of the second form will remain after the rebase exits. Signed-off-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 96680c8456..ac35894640 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ would be:
D---E---F---G master
------------
-The latter form is just a short-hand of `git checkout topic`
-followed by `git rebase master`.
+*NOTE:* The latter form is just a short-hand of `git checkout topic`
+followed by `git rebase master`. When rebase exits `topic` will
+remain the checked-out branch.
If the upstream branch already contains a change you have made (e.g.,
because you mailed a patch which was applied upstream), then that commit