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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 2a93c645bd..be15b76871 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ unless the `--fork-point` option is specified. -p:: --preserve-merges:: - Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. + Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying + commits a merge commit introduces. Merge conflict resolutions or manual + amendments to merge commits are not preserved. + This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good |