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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-03-31 14:54:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-03-31 14:54:12 -0700 |
| commit | ad00aebfe93b3fc79c5ed54569f1603b8030783a (patch) | |
| tree | e41f9df2842aa74a3c692d733e1a09d708c2c413 /Documentation/git-rebase.txt | |
| parent | ab0fb57aac6c5b6f074c07c7e2729bcff58cc45d (diff) | |
| parent | d50d31e8808261eccfa6bde826e5e63368e29573 (diff) | |
| download | git-ad00aebfe93b3fc79c5ed54569f1603b8030783a.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'ss/pull-rebase-preserve' into maint
* ss/pull-rebase-preserve:
docs: clarify what git-rebase's "-p" / "--preserve-merges" does
docs: clarify "preserve" option wording for git-pull
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 924827dc2e..c8ab48d6aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -362,7 +362,9 @@ default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`. -p:: --preserve-merges:: - Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. + Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying + commits a merge commit introduces. Merge conflict resolutions or manual + amendments to merge commits are not preserved. + This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good |