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Documentation/git-rebase.txt: document when --fork-point is auto-enabled

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Running "git rebase" without giving a specific commit with respect
to which the operation is done enables --fork-point mode, while
telling the command to rebase with respect to a specific commit,
i.e. "git rebase <upstream>" does not.

This was not mentioned in the DESCRIPTION section of the manual
page, even though the case of omitted <upstream> was otherwise
discussed.  That in turn made actual behavior of vanilla "git
rebase" hardly discoverable.

While we are at it, clarify the --fork-point description itself as
well.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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2014-09-18 23:03:25 +04:00
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@ -21,15 +21,17 @@ If <branch> is specified, 'git rebase' will perform an automatic
it remains on the current branch.
If <upstream> is not specified, the upstream configured in
branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options will be used; see
linkgit:git-config[1] for details. If you are currently not on any
branch or if the current branch does not have a configured upstream,
the rebase will abort.
branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options will be used (see
linkgit:git-config[1] for details) and the `--fork-point` option is
assumed. If you are currently not on any branch or if the current
branch does not have a configured upstream, the rebase will abort.
All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not
in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set
of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD` (or
`git log HEAD`, if --root is specified).
of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`; or by
`git log 'fork_point'..HEAD`, if `--fork-point` is active (see the
description on `--fork-point` below); or by `git log HEAD`, if the
`--root` option is specified.
The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the
--onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as
@ -326,13 +328,18 @@ link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for details)
--fork-point::
--no-fork-point::
Use 'git merge-base --fork-point' to find a better common ancestor
between `upstream` and `branch` when calculating which commits have
have been introduced by `branch` (see linkgit:git-merge-base[1]).
Use reflog to find a better common ancestor between <upstream>
and <branch> when calculating which commits have been
introduced by <branch>.
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If no non-option arguments are given on the command line, then the default is
`--fork-point @{u}` otherwise the `upstream` argument is interpreted literally
unless the `--fork-point` option is specified.
When --fork-point is active, 'fork_point' will be used instead of
<upstream> to calculate the set of commits to rebase, where
'fork_point' is the result of `git merge-base --fork-point <upstream>
<branch>` command (see linkgit:git-merge-base[1]). If 'fork_point'
ends up being empty, the <upstream> will be used as a fallback.
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If either <upstream> or --root is given on the command line, then the
default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`.
--ignore-whitespace::
--whitespace=<option>::