Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-23 Thread Matthew Brett
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: NAME git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head =

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-18 Thread Matthew Brett
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: NAME git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head = Quite technical already. Very much true, and I would say the description is

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Perhaps something like this instead? git-rebase - Rebuild a branch on top of a different commit I would say Replay history on top of a different commit instead. Rebuild may be misleading (it's

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Matthieu Moy
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Perhaps something like this instead? git-rebase - Rebuild a branch on top of a different commit I would say Replay history on top of a different commit instead. Rebuild may be misleading (it's not build as in compile link), and the rebased history

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Matthieu Moy
Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com writes: Obviously my page as it is now is very different in tone from the git-rebase page, but I think there are some aspects that could be fruitfully merged. Would you be interested in patches of this sort, or does the page seem too far from the

Re: Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: NAME git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head = Quite technical already. Very much true, and I would say the description is technically correct in the sense that it is not wrong per-se. There are a few

Advice on edits to git-rebase man page

2015-02-04 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Sorry for the rather open-ended email, but I am interested to whether you would be interested in patches for git-rebase man page, based on a tutorial page I wrote some ago: http://matthew-brett.github.io/pydagogue/rebase_without_tears.html The reason I ask, is because I have found the