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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-03 01:30:44 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-03 01:30:44 +0300 |
| commit | 2b9afea37207323d629953c639542c0e4c87e484 (patch) | |
| tree | f1006df3853b67d87b9cf7a914424c7c0db15867 /Documentation | |
| parent | 87ece7ce1133ebc5d339cad5f6f92c02e5fc712d (diff) | |
| parent | caafecfcf13e58b474c33db093c9deacd11ceb08 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'js/rebase-merge-octopus'
"git rebase --rebase-merges" mode now handles octopus merges as
well.
* js/rebase-merge-octopus:
rebase --rebase-merges: adjust man page for octopus support
rebase --rebase-merges: add support for octopus merges
merge: allow reading the merge commit message from a file
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 6a5c00e2c2..537dca7faa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [--[no-]edit] [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<keyid>]] [--[no-]allow-unrelated-histories] - [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...] + [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [-F <file>] [<commit>...] 'git merge' --abort 'git merge' --continue @@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be used to give a good default for automated 'git merge' invocations. The automated message can include the branch description. +-F <file>:: +--file=<file>:: + Read the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in + case one is created). ++ +If `--log` is specified, a shortlog of the commits being merged +will be appended to the specified message. + --[no-]rerere-autoupdate:: Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the result of auto-conflict resolution if possible. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index a7850415b1..1fbc6ebcde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how to edit the todo list (this typically happens when a `reset` command was inserted into the todo list manually and contains a typo). -The `merge` command will merge the specified revision into whatever is -HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of +The `merge` command will merge the specified revision(s) into whatever +is HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of the specified merge commit will be used. When the `-C` is changed to a lower-case `-c`, the message will be opened in an editor after a successful merge so that the user can edit the message. @@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ 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, with no way to choose a different one. To work around +merge strategy for regular merges, and `octopus` for octopus merges, +strategy, 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). |