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| author | Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> | 2009-01-03 01:28:29 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-01-12 10:09:14 +0300 |
| commit | be4966210125f558864368a666ebde67bed92151 (patch) | |
| tree | c48999882b9c7877f8ea3a87d5d534b7d26a4e36 /Documentation/git-rebase.txt | |
| parent | d911d1465d134cbd126e531a544f33b13f4e855a (diff) | |
rebase: update documentation for --root
Since the new option depends on --onto and omission of <upstream>, use
a separate invocation style, and omit most options to save space.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-rebase.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index c8ad86a56f..3d6d429e5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [-v | --verbose] [-m | --merge] - [-s <strategy> | --strategy=<strategy>] [--no-verify] - [-C<n>] [ --whitespace=<option>] [-p | --preserve-merges] - [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>] +'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>] + <upstream> [<branch>] +'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] --onto <newbase> + --root [<branch>] + 'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort DESCRIPTION @@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ it remains on the current branch. All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set -of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`. +of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD` (or +`git log HEAD`, if --root is specified). The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the --onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as @@ -255,6 +257,15 @@ OPTIONS --preserve-merges:: Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. +--root:: + Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of + limiting them with an <upstream>. This allows you to rebase + the root commit(s) on a branch. Must be used with --onto, and + will skip changes already contained in <newbase> (instead of + <upstream>). When used together with --preserve-merges, 'all' + root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent + instead. + include::merge-strategies.txt[] NOTES |