Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rebase.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index db1b71d24846e4561d99bed095345eb9580b0632..33e0ef1f6d48c22eddb2b1a7273065a4269924ae 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -268,8 +268,9 @@ OPTIONS
        exit with the message "Current branch is up to date" in such a
        situation.
 
+--ignore-whitespace::
 --whitespace=<option>::
-       This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' program
+       These flag are passed to the 'git-apply' program
        (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch.
        Incompatible with the --interactive option.
 
@@ -367,14 +368,17 @@ By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can tell
 the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue
 rebasing.
 
+If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the
+command "pick" with the command "reword".
+
 If you want to fold two or more commits into one, replace the command
 "pick" with "squash" for the second and subsequent commit.  If the
 commits had different authors, it will attribute the squashed commit to
 the author of the first commit.
 
-In both cases, or when a "pick" does not succeed (because of merge
-errors), the loop will stop to let you fix things, and you can continue
-the loop with `git rebase --continue`.
+'git-rebase' will stop when "pick" has been replaced with "edit" or
+when a command fails due to merge errors. When you are done editing
+and/or resolving conflicts you can continue with `git rebase --continue`.
 
 For example, if you want to reorder the last 5 commits, such that what
 was HEAD~4 becomes the new HEAD. To achieve that, you would call