Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: [...] > How about doing it this way, perhaps?
Could you please apply this your suggestion, as we seem not to agree on anything better? > -- >8 -- > From: Sergey Organov <sorga...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:22:48 +0400 > Subject: [PATCH] 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 <sorga...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> > --- > Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 7 ++----- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt > index 2a93c64..f14100a 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 -- Sergey. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
