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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 841ebd6a9f..147fa1a8e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ which makes little sense. -X <strategy-option>:: --strategy-option=<strategy-option>:: Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy. - This implies `\--merge` and, if no strategy has been + This implies `--merge` and, if no strategy has been specified, `-s recursive`. Note the reversal of 'ours' and 'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option. @@ -615,8 +615,8 @@ Easy case: The changes are literally the same.:: Hard case: The changes are not the same.:: This happens if the 'subsystem' rebase had conflicts, or used - `\--interactive` to omit, edit, squash, or fixup commits; or - if the upstream used one of `commit \--amend`, `reset`, or + `--interactive` to omit, edit, squash, or fixup commits; or + if the upstream used one of `commit --amend`, `reset`, or `filter-branch`. @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ correspond to the ones before the rebase. NOTE: While an "easy case recovery" sometimes appears to be successful even in the hard case, it may have unintended consequences. For example, a commit that was removed via `git rebase - \--interactive` will be **resurrected**! + --interactive` will be **resurrected**! The idea is to manually tell 'git rebase' "where the old 'subsystem' ended and your 'topic' began", that is, what the old merge-base @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ between them was. You will have to find a way to name the last commit of the old 'subsystem', for example: * With the 'subsystem' reflog: after 'git fetch', the old tip of - 'subsystem' is at `subsystem@\{1}`. Subsequent fetches will + 'subsystem' is at `subsystem@{1}`. Subsequent fetches will increase the number. (See linkgit:git-reflog[1].) * Relative to the tip of 'topic': knowing that your 'topic' has three |