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| author | Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> | 2021-08-05 02:50:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-08-05 18:57:39 +0300 |
| commit | e037c2e41869489c1e17701a9f1c429ad9c18f9b (patch) | |
| tree | 95bdb95e6c4e7a8f50da2c2a03214d1bd372b3e8 /Documentation/git-rebase.txt | |
| parent | 66262451ec94d30ac4b80eb3123549cf7a788afd (diff) | |
git-rebase.txt: correct antiquated claims about --rebase-merges
When --rebase-merges was first introduced, it only worked with the
`recursive` strategy. Some time later, it gained support for merges
using the `octopus` strategy. The limitation of only supporting these
two strategies was documented in 25cff9f109 ("rebase -i --rebase-merges:
add a section to the man page", 2018-04-25) and lifted in e145d99347
("rebase -r: support merge strategies other than `recursive`",
2019-07-31). However, when the limitation was lifted, the documentation
was not updated. Update it now.
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-rebase.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 55af6fd24e..8a67227846 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -1219,12 +1219,16 @@ successful merge so that the user can edit the message. If a `merge` command fails for any reason other than merge conflicts (i.e. when the merge operation did not even start), it is rescheduled immediately. -At this time, the `merge` command will *always* use the `recursive` -merge strategy for regular merges, and `octopus` for octopus merges, -with no way to choose a different one. To work around -this, an `exec` command can be used to call `git merge` explicitly, -using the fact that the labels are worktree-local refs (the ref -`refs/rewritten/onto` would correspond to the label `onto`, for example). +By default, the `merge` command will use the `recursive` merge +strategy for regular merges, and `octopus` for octopus merges. One +can specify a default strategy for all merges using the `--strategy` +argument when invoking rebase, or can override specific merges in the +interactive list of commands by using an `exec` command to call `git +merge` explicitly with a `--strategy` argument. Note that when +calling `git merge` explicitly like this, you can make use of the fact +that the labels are worktree-local refs (the ref `refs/rewritten/onto` +would correspond to the label `onto`, for example) in order to refer +to the branches you want to merge. Note: the first command (`label onto`) labels the revision onto which the commits are rebased; The name `onto` is just a convention, as a nod |