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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 639a4179d1..1d0e2d27cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -393,16 +393,31 @@ your branch contains commits which were dropped, this option can be used with `--keep-base` in order to drop those commits from your branch. --ignore-whitespace:: + Behaves differently depending on which backend is selected. ++ +'am' backend: When applying a patch, ignore changes in whitespace in +context lines if necessary. ++ +'interactive' backend: Treat lines with only whitespace changes as +unchanged for the sake of a three-way merge. + --whitespace=<option>:: - These flag are passed to the 'git apply' program + This flag is passed to the 'git apply' program (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch. + See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --committer-date-is-author-date:: + Instead of recording the time the rebased commits are + created as the committer date, reuse the author date + as the committer date. This implies --force-rebase. + --ignore-date:: - These flags are passed to 'git am' to easily change the dates - of the rebased commits (see linkgit:git-am[1]). +--reset-author-date:: + By default, the author date of the original commit is used + as the author date for the resulting commit. This option + tells Git to use the current timestamp instead and implies + `--force-rebase`. + See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. @@ -443,8 +458,8 @@ 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 @@ -539,10 +554,7 @@ INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS The following options: - * --committer-date-is-author-date - * --ignore-date * --whitespace - * --ignore-whitespace * -C are incompatible with the following options: @@ -565,6 +577,9 @@ In addition, the following pairs of options are incompatible: * --preserve-merges and --interactive * --preserve-merges and --signoff * --preserve-merges and --rebase-merges + * --preserve-merges and --ignore-whitespace + * --preserve-merges and --committer-date-is-author-date + * --preserve-merges and --ignore-date * --keep-base and --onto * --keep-base and --root |