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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 5629ba4c5d..f5e6ae3907 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -300,6 +300,11 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. + See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. +--rerere-autoupdate:: +--no-rerere-autoupdate:: + Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the + result of auto-conflict resolution if possible. + -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and @@ -410,14 +415,14 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. + By default, or when `no-rebase-cousins` was specified, commits which do not have `<upstream>` as direct ancestor will keep their original branch point, -i.e. commits that would be excluded by gitlink:git-log[1]'s +i.e. commits that would be excluded by linkgit:git-log[1]'s `--ancestry-path` option will keep their original ancestry by default. If 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 `--preserve-merges`, but -in contrast to that option works well in interactive rebases: commits can be -reordered, inserted and dropped at will. +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. + It is currently only possible to recreate the merge commits using the `recursive` merge strategy; Different merge strategies can be used only via @@ -427,9 +432,10 @@ See also REBASING MERGES and INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. -p:: --preserve-merges:: - 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. + [DEPRECATED: use `--rebase-merges` instead] 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 @@ -1020,11 +1026,11 @@ merge cmake BUGS ---- -The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not -represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and -rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to -reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. Use -`--rebase-merges` in such scenarios instead. +The todo list presented by the deprecated `--preserve-merges --interactive` +does not represent the topology of the revision graph (use `--rebase-merges` +instead). Editing commits and rewording their commit messages should work +fine, but attempts to reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. +Use `--rebase-merges` in such scenarios instead. For example, an attempt to rearrange ------------ |