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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-10-25 23:35:37 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-10-25 23:35:37 -0700
commit271440e3b65f0c599e19fdd6bc07aeccc16699fb (patch)
tree904bc6f6b95ae8e3f2dd450334dac1a2a5ed8007 /Documentation
parentgit-rev-list: fix "--dense" flag (diff)
downloadtgif-271440e3b65f0c599e19fdd6bc07aeccc16699fb.tar.xz
git-am: make it easier after fixing up an unapplicable patch.
Instead of having the user to edit the mail message, let the hand merge result stored in .dotest/patch and continue, which is easier to manage. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-am.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 9de2df115b..704dc514de 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ recover from this in one of two ways:
. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, run 'git
diff HEAD' to extract the merge result into a patch form and
- replacing the patch part of the message in .dotest directory.
- After doing this, run `git-reset --hard HEAD` to bring the
- working tree to the state before half-applying the patch, then
- re-run the command without any options.
+ replacing the patch in .dotest/patch file. After doing this,
+ run `git-reset --hard HEAD` to bring the working tree to the
+ state before half-applying the patch, then re-run the command
+ without any options.
The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.dotest`
directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,