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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2006-02-21 17:10:12 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-02-21 17:45:32 -0800
commit69a60af5d0a84c4a7af907eba87f42dd6fb3c6e1 (patch)
treef981886d6a1c9b022ac079a46204ef07a9362d35 /git-rebase.sh
parent664368886781b7c070233c002597b84628eec571 (diff)
downloadgit-69a60af5d0a84c4a7af907eba87f42dd6fb3c6e1.tar.gz
git-rebase: Clarify usage statement and copy it into the actual documentation.
I found a paper thin man page for git-rebase, but was quite happy to see something much more useful in the usage statement of the script when I went there to find out how this thing worked. Here it is cleaned up slightly and expanded a bit into the actual documentation. Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
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+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -4,24 +4,28 @@
#
USAGE='[--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]'
-LONG_USAGE='If <branch> is specified, switch to that branch first. Then,
-extract commits in the current branch that are not in <upstream>,
-and reconstruct the current on top of <upstream>, discarding the original
-development history. If --onto <newbase> is specified, the history is
-reconstructed on top of <newbase>, instead of <upstream>. For example,
-while on "topic" branch:
+LONG_USAGE='git-rebase applies to <upstream> (or optionally to <newbase>) commits
+from <branch> that do not appear in <upstream>. When <branch> is not
+specified it defaults to the current branch (HEAD).
+
+When git-rebase is complete, <branch> will be updated to point to the
+newly created line of commit objects, so the previous line will not be
+accessible unless there are other references to it already.
+
+Assuming the following history:
A---B---C topic
/
D---E---F---G master
- $ '"$0"' --onto master~1 master topic
+The result of the following command:
-would rewrite the history to look like this:
+ git-rebase --onto master~1 master topic
+ would be:
- A'\''--B'\''--C'\'' topic
- /
+ A'\''--B'\''--C'\'' topic
+ /
D---E---F---G master
'