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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt index d10476b56e..d88ec23a97 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Fortunately I did not have to; what I have in the current branch ------------------------------------------------ $ git checkout master -$ git resolve master revert-c99 fast ;# this should be a fast forward +$ git merge revert-c99 ;# this should be a fast forward Updating from 10d781b9caa4f71495c7b34963bef137216f86a8 to e3a693c... cache.h | 8 ++++---- commit.c | 2 +- @@ -95,13 +95,6 @@ Updating from 10d781b9caa4f71495c7b34963bef137216f86a8 to e3a693c... 5 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) ------------------------------------------------ -The 'fast' in the above 'git resolve' is not a magic. I knew this -'resolve' would result in a fast forward merge, and if not, there is -something very wrong (so I would do 'git reset' on the 'master' branch -and examine the situation). When a fast forward merge is done, the -message parameter to 'git resolve' is discarded, because no new commit -is created. You could have said 'junk' or 'nothing' there as well. - There is no need to redo the test at this point. We fast forwarded and we know 'master' matches 'revert-c99' exactly. In fact: |