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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 0c00090a6b..96907d4863 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-rebase' [-v] [--merge] [-C<n>] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>] +'git-rebase' [-i | --interactive] [-v | --verbose] [--merge] [-C<n>] + [-p | --preserve-merges] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>] 'git-rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort DESCRIPTION @@ -208,6 +209,14 @@ OPTIONS context exist they all must match. By default no context is ever ignored. +-i, \--interactive:: + Make a list of the commits which are about to be rebased. Let the + user edit that list before rebasing. + +-p, \--preserve-merges:: + Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. This option + only works in interactive mode. + include::merge-strategies.txt[] NOTES @@ -226,9 +235,100 @@ pre-rebase hook script for an example. You must be in the top directory of your project to start (or continue) a rebase. Upon completion, <branch> will be the current branch. -Author +INTERACTIVE MODE +---------------- + +Rebasing interactively means that you have a chance to edit the commits +which are rebased. You can reorder the commits, and you can +remove them (weeding out bad or otherwise unwanted patches). + +The interactive mode is meant for this type of workflow: + +1. have a wonderful idea +2. hack on the code +3. prepare a series for submission +4. submit + +where point 2. consists of several instances of + +a. regular use + 1. finish something worthy of a commit + 2. commit +b. independent fixup + 1. realize that something does not work + 2. fix that + 3. commit it + +Sometimes the thing fixed in b.2. cannot be amended to the not-quite +perfect commit it fixes, because that commit is buried deeply in a +patch series. That is exactly what interactive rebase is for: use it +after plenty of "a"s and "b"s, by rearranging and editing +commits, and squashing multiple commits into one. + +Start it with the last commit you want to retain as-is: + + git rebase -i <after-this-commit> + +An editor will be fired up with all the commits in your current branch +(ignoring merge commits), which come after the given commit. You can +reorder the commits in this list to your heart's content, and you can +remove them. The list looks more or less like this: + +------------------------------------------- +pick deadbee The oneline of this commit +pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit +... +------------------------------------------- + +The oneline descriptions are purely for your pleasure; `git-rebase` will +not look at them but at the commit names ("deadbee" and "fa1afe1" in this +example), so do not delete or edit the names. + +By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can tell +`git-rebase` to stop after applying that commit, so that you can edit +the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue +rebasing. + +If you want to fold two or more commits into one, replace the command +"pick" with "squash" for the second and subsequent commit. If the +commits had different authors, it will attribute the squashed commit to +the author of the last commit. + +In both cases, or when a "pick" does not succeed (because of merge +errors), the loop will stop to let you fix things, and you can continue +the loop with `git rebase --continue`. + +For example, if you want to reorder the last 5 commits, such that what +was HEAD~4 becomes the new HEAD. To achieve that, you would call +`git-rebase` like this: + +---------------------- +$ git rebase -i HEAD~5 +---------------------- + +And move the first patch to the end of the list. + +You might want to preserve merges, if you have a history like this: + +------------------ + X + \ + A---M---B + / +---o---O---P---Q +------------------ + +Suppose you want to rebase the side branch starting at "A" to "Q". Make +sure that the current HEAD is "B", and call + +----------------------------- +$ git rebase -i -p --onto Q O +----------------------------- + +Authors ------ -Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> +Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and +Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Documentation -------------- |