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| author | Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> | 2014-08-12 00:22:48 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-08-12 13:37:45 -0700 |
| commit | 2d26d533a012f7475e13657d7fc829a6ba01db73 (patch) | |
| tree | e7f53fced3ae1a7306bb5bc0ff840cdce24eabef /Documentation/git-rebase.txt | |
| parent | 32f56600bb6ac6fc57183e79d2c1515dfa56672f (diff) | |
| download | git-2d26d533a012f7475e13657d7fc829a6ba01db73.tar.gz | |
Documentation/git-rebase.txt: -f forces a rebase that would otherwise be a no-op
"Current branch is a descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto"
does not necessarily mean "rebase" requires "--force". For a plain
vanilla "history flattening" rebase, the rebase can be done without
forcing if there is a merge between the tip of the branch being
rebased and the commit you are rebasing onto, even if the tip is
descendant of the other.
[jc: reworded both the text and the log description]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@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 | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 2a93c645bd..f14100a160 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -316,11 +316,8 @@ which makes little sense. -f:: --force-rebase:: - Force the rebase even if the current branch is a descendant - of the commit you are rebasing onto. Normally non-interactive rebase will - exit with the message "Current branch is up to date" in such a - situation. - Incompatible with the --interactive option. + Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and + the command without `--force` would return without doing anything. + You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with |