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--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
- [<upstream>] [<branch>]
+ [<upstream> [<branch>]]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
--root [<branch>]
'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo
@@ -21,15 +21,17 @@ If <branch> is specified, 'git rebase' will perform an automatic
it remains on the current branch.
If <upstream> is not specified, the upstream configured in
-branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options will be used; see
-linkgit:git-config[1] for details. If you are currently not on any
-branch or if the current branch does not have a configured upstream,
-the rebase will abort.
+branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options will be used (see
+linkgit:git-config[1] for details) and the `--fork-point` option is
+assumed. If you are currently not on any branch or if the current
+branch does not have a configured upstream, the rebase will abort.
All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not
in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set
-of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD` (or
-`git log HEAD`, if --root is specified).
+of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`; or by
+`git log 'fork_point'..HEAD`, if `--fork-point` is active (see the
+description on `--fork-point` below); or by `git log HEAD`, if the
+`--root` option is specified.
The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the
--onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as
@@ -205,10 +207,10 @@ rebase.stat::
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
rebase. False by default.
-rebase.autosquash::
+rebase.autoSquash::
If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
-rebase.autostash::
+rebase.autoStash::
If set to true enable '--autostash' option by default.
OPTIONS
@@ -316,11 +318,8 @@ which makes little sense.
-f::
--force-rebase::
- Force the rebase even if the current branch is a descendant
- of the commit you are rebasing onto. Normally non-interactive rebase will
- exit with the message "Current branch is up to date" in such a
- situation.
- Incompatible with the --interactive option.
+ Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and
+ the command without `--force` would return without doing anything.
+
You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after
reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with
@@ -330,13 +329,18 @@ link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details)
--fork-point::
--no-fork-point::
- Use 'git merge-base --fork-point' to find a better common ancestor
- between `upstream` and `branch` when calculating which commits have
- have been introduced by `branch` (see linkgit:git-merge-base[1]).
+ Use reflog to find a better common ancestor between <upstream>
+ and <branch> when calculating which commits have been
+ introduced by <branch>.
++
+When --fork-point is active, 'fork_point' will be used instead of
+<upstream> to calculate the set of commits to rebase, where
+'fork_point' is the result of `git merge-base --fork-point <upstream>
+<branch>` command (see linkgit:git-merge-base[1]). If 'fork_point'
+ends up being empty, the <upstream> will be used as a fallback.
+
-If no non-option arguments are given on the command line, then the default is
-`--fork-point @{u}` otherwise the `upstream` argument is interpreted literally
-unless the `--fork-point` option is specified.
+If either <upstream> or --root is given on the command line, then the
+default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`.
--ignore-whitespace::
--whitespace=<option>::
@@ -358,7 +362,9 @@ 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
@@ -410,7 +416,7 @@ squash/fixup series.
This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used.
+
If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the
-configuration variable `rebase.autosquash`, this option can be
+configuration variable `rebase.autoSquash`, this option can be
used to override and disable this setting.
--[no-]autostash::