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+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -509,15 +509,7 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
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
@@ -525,15 +517,12 @@ 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
@@ -544,7 +533,7 @@ Flags only understood by the interactive backend:
* --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
@@ -575,8 +564,9 @@ 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[]
@@ -984,7 +974,7 @@ 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).