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2010-03-24Teach rebase the --no-ff option.Libravatar Marc Branchaud1-0/+90
For git-rebase.sh, --no-ff is a synonym for --force-rebase. For git-rebase--interactive.sh, --no-ff cherry-picks all the commits in the rebased branch, instead of fast-forwarding over any unchanged commits. --no-ff offers an alternative way to deal with reverted merges. Instead of "reverting the revert" you can use "rebase --no-ff" to recreate the branch with entirely new commits (they're new because at the very least the committer time is different). This obviates the need to revert the reversion, as you can re-merge the new topic branch directly. Added an addendum to revert-a-faulty-merge.txt describing the situation and how to use --no-ff to handle it. Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-03Documentation: Typo / spelling / formatting fixesLibravatar Mike Ralphson1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-21Add a documentat on how to revert a faulty mergeLibravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+179
Linus and Junio explained issues that are involved in reverting a merge and how to continue working with a branch that was updated since such a revert on the mailing list. This is to help new people who did not see these messages. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>