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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index a7850415b1..1fbc6ebcde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how to edit the todo list (this typically happens when a `reset` command was inserted into the todo list manually and contains a typo). -The `merge` command will merge the specified revision into whatever is -HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of +The `merge` command will merge the specified revision(s) into whatever +is HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of the specified merge commit will be used. When the `-C` is changed to a lower-case `-c`, the message will be opened in an editor after a successful merge so that the user can edit the message. @@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ If a `merge` command fails for any reason other than merge conflicts (i.e. when the merge operation did not even start), it is rescheduled immediately. At this time, the `merge` command will *always* use the `recursive` -merge strategy, with no way to choose a different one. To work around +merge strategy for regular merges, and `octopus` for octopus merges, +strategy, with no way to choose a different one. To work around this, an `exec` command can be used to call `git merge` explicitly, using the fact that the labels are worktree-local refs (the ref `refs/rewritten/onto` would correspond to the label `onto`, for example). |