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@@ -462,6 +462,12 @@ without an explicit `--interactive`.
+
See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
+-y <cmd>::
+ This is the same as passing `--reschedule-failed-exec` before
+ `-x <cmd>`, i.e. it appends the specified `exec` command and
+ turns on the mode where failed `exec` commands are automatically
+ rescheduled.
+
--root::
Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of
limiting them with an <upstream>. This allows you to rebase
@@ -501,6 +507,11 @@ 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
--------------------
@@ -570,8 +581,9 @@ 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 +991,7 @@ 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).