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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 0c4f038dd6..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.
@@ -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