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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-28 09:01:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-28 09:01:21 -0700 |
| commit | 311811b39ff3e0f7035e09ec45f992f10beaaa56 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b1c7d809dd2de73d2effbfaf8ff861bda2bfb06 /Documentation/howto | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/tap-verbose-fix' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing (diff) | |
| download | tgif-311811b39ff3e0f7035e09ec45f992f10beaaa56.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration' into maint
Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
work around them.
* po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration:
doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/howto')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt index 462255ed5d..19f59cc888 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The history immediately after the "revert of the merge" would look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W - / + / ---A---B where A and B are on the side development that was not so good, M is the @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ After the developers of the side branch fix their mistakes, the history may look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x - / + / ---A---B-------------------C---D where C and D are to fix what was broken in A and B, and you may already @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ In such a situation, you would want to first revert the previous revert, which would make the history look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---Y - / + / ---A---B-------------------C---D where Y is the revert of W. Such a "revert of the revert" can be done @@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ This history would (ignoring possible conflicts between what W and W..Y changed) be equivalent to not having W or Y at all in the history: ---o---o---o---M---x---x-------x---- - / + / ---A---B-------------------C---D and merging the side branch again will not have conflict arising from an earlier revert and revert of the revert. ---o---o---o---M---x---x-------x-------* - / / + / / ---A---B-------------------C---D Of course the changes made in C and D still can conflict with what was @@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ faulty A and B, and redone the changes on top of the updated mainline after the revert, the history would have looked like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---x - / \ + / \ ---A---B A'--B'--C' If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---x---Y---* - / \ / + / \ / ---A---B A'--B'--C' where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ lot of overlapping changes that result in conflicts. So do not do "revert of revert" blindly without thinking.. ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---x - / \ + / \ ---A---B A'--B'--C' In the history with rebased side branch, W (and M) are behind the merge |