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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
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@@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ the `rebase-cousins` mode is turned on, such commits are instead rebased
onto `<upstream>` (or `<onto>`, if specified).
+
The `--rebase-merges` mode is similar in spirit to the deprecated
-`--preserve-merges`, but in contrast to that option works well in interactive
-rebases: commits can be reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
+`--preserve-merges` but works with interactive rebases,
+where commits can be reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
+
It is currently only possible to recreate the merge commits using the
`recursive` merge strategy; Different merge strategies can be used only via