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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 2a93c645bd..4138554912 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] - [<upstream>] [<branch>] + [<upstream> [<branch>]] 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] --root [<branch>] 'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo @@ -316,11 +316,8 @@ which makes little sense. -f:: --force-rebase:: - Force the rebase even if the current branch is a descendant - of the commit you are rebasing onto. Normally non-interactive rebase will - exit with the message "Current branch is up to date" in such a - situation. - Incompatible with the --interactive option. + Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and + the command without `--force` would return without doing anything. + You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with |