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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-11-22 16:28:06 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-11-22 16:28:06 -0800 |
| commit | c50230f75109677d7adf0bd94f99d17f35a519a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 58d077c474e804bbd40133505fa0ee8d72c4a28d /Documentation | |
| parent | log --format: document %w (diff) | |
| parent | rebase docs: clarify --merge and --strategy (diff) | |
| download | tgif-c50230f75109677d7adf0bd94f99d17f35a519a6.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'tr/maint-merge-ours-clarification' (early part)
* 'tr/maint-merge-ours-clarification' (early part):
rebase docs: clarify --merge and --strategy
Documentation: clarify 'ours' merge strategy
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 33e0ef1f6d..ca5e1e8653 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -228,13 +228,23 @@ OPTIONS Use merging strategies to rebase. When the recursive (default) merge strategy is used, this allows rebase to be aware of renames on the upstream side. ++ +Note that a rebase merge works by replaying each commit from the working +branch on top of the <upstream> branch. Because of this, when a merge +conflict happens, the side reported as 'ours' is the so-far rebased +series, starting with <upstream>, and 'theirs' is the working branch. In +other words, the sides are swapped. -s <strategy>:: --strategy=<strategy>:: Use the given merge strategy. - If there is no `-s` option, a built-in list of strategies - is used instead ('git-merge-recursive' when merging a single - head, 'git-merge-octopus' otherwise). This implies --merge. + If there is no `-s` option 'git-merge-recursive' is used + instead. This implies --merge. ++ +Because 'git-rebase' replays each commit from the working branch +on top of the <upstream> branch using the given strategy, using +the 'ours' strategy simply discards all patches from the <branch>, +which makes little sense. -q:: --quiet:: diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 4365b7e842..42910a3d5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ octopus:: pulling or merging more than one branch. ours:: - This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the - merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to + This resolves any number of heads, but the resulting tree of the + merge is always that of the current branch head, effectively + ignoring all changes from all other branches. It is meant to be used to supersede old development history of side branches. |