Fix gitdir detection when in subdir of gitdir

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index f3459c7de7c9629f2abfdb684a359bb264ea82ed..59c1b021a6c410e1097df21d6d47365aec6689e2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`.
 
 The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the
 --onto option was supplied.  This has the exact same effect as
-`git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>).
+`git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>).  ORIG_HEAD is set
+to point at the tip of the branch before the reset.
 
 The commits that were previously saved into the temporary area are
 then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order. Note that
@@ -38,8 +39,8 @@ It is possible that a merge failure will prevent this process from being
 completely automatic.  You will have to resolve any such merge failure
 and run `git rebase --continue`.  Another option is to bypass the commit
 that caused the merge failure with `git rebase --skip`.  To restore the
-original <branch> and remove the .dotest working files, use the command
-`git rebase --abort` instead.
+original <branch> and remove the .git/rebase-apply working files, use the
+command `git rebase --abort` instead.
 
 Assume the following history exists and the current branch is "topic":
 
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ after each commit, test, and amend the commit if fixes are necessary.
 
 Authors
 ------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and
 Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
 
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