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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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@@ -340,9 +340,7 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
-m::
--merge::
- 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. This is the default.
+ Using merging strategies to rebase (default).
+
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