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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 5863decdc9..be23ad2359 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ OPTIONS --onto option is not specified, the starting point is <upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an existing branch name. ++ +As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the +merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can +leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. <upstream>:: Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit, @@ -306,6 +310,11 @@ link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details). -p:: --preserve-merges:: Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. ++ +This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it +with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good +idea unless you know what you are doing (see BUGS below). + --root:: Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of @@ -607,6 +616,28 @@ The ripple effect of a "hard case" recovery is especially bad: case" recovery too! +BUGS +---- +The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not +represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and +rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to +reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. + +For example, an attempt to rearrange +------------ +1 --- 2 --- 3 --- 4 --- 5 +------------ +to +------------ +1 --- 2 --- 4 --- 3 --- 5 +------------ +by moving the "pick 4" line will result in the following history: +------------ + 3 + / +1 --- 2 --- 4 --- 5 +------------ + Authors ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and |