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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index dff17b3178..5629ba4c5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -501,18 +501,15 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. with care: the final stash application after a successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. +--reschedule-failed-exec:: +--no-reschedule-failed-exec:: + Automatically reschedule `exec` commands that failed. This only makes + sense in interactive mode (or when an `--exec` option was provided). + INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS -------------------- -git-rebase has many flags that are incompatible with each other, -predominantly due to the fact that it has three different underlying -implementations: - - * one based on linkgit:git-am[1] (the default) - * one based on git-merge-recursive (merge backend) - * one based on linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1] (interactive backend) - -Flags only understood by the am backend: +The following options: * --committer-date-is-author-date * --ignore-date @@ -520,26 +517,22 @@ Flags only understood by the am backend: * --ignore-whitespace * -C -Flags understood by both merge and interactive backends: +are incompatible with the following options: * --merge * --strategy * --strategy-option * --allow-empty-message - -Flags only understood by the interactive backend: - * --[no-]autosquash * --rebase-merges * --preserve-merges * --interactive * --exec * --keep-empty - * --autosquash * --edit-todo * --root when used in combination with --onto -Other incompatible flag pairs: +In addition, the following pairs of options are incompatible: * --preserve-merges and --interactive * --preserve-merges and --signoff @@ -560,8 +553,6 @@ commit started empty (had no changes relative to its parent to start with) or ended empty (all changes were already applied upstream in other commits). -The merge backend does the same. - The interactive backend drops commits by default that started empty and halts if it hits a commit that ended up empty. The `--keep-empty` option exists for the interactive backend to allow @@ -570,8 +561,9 @@ it to keep commits that started empty. Directory rename detection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The merge and interactive backends work fine with -directory rename detection. The am backend sometimes does not. +Directory rename heuristics are enabled in the merge and interactive +backends. Due to the lack of accurate tree information, directory +rename detection is disabled in the am backend. include::merge-strategies.txt[] @@ -979,7 +971,7 @@ 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 for regular merges, and `octopus` for octopus merges, -strategy, with no way to choose a different one. To work around +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). |