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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 1b482abecdc2e953db1f29cb3c531f665ea8011c..9d7bcaa38cc5c13e29c00ddd18c64202e98cb5f8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -7,11 +7,9 @@ git-rebase - Rebase local commits to a new head
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-rebase' [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
+'git-rebase' [--merge] [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
 
-'git-rebase' --continue
-
-'git-rebase' --abort
+'git-rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -23,9 +21,10 @@ not exist in the <upstream> branch.
 
 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`.  If you can not resolve the merge
-failure, running `git rebase --abort` will restore the original <branch>
-and remove the working files found in the .dotest directory.
+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.
 
 Note that if <branch> is not specified on the command line, the currently
 checked out branch is used.
@@ -107,6 +106,23 @@ OPTIONS
 --abort::
        Restore the original branch and abort the rebase operation.
 
+--skip::
+       Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch.
+
+--merge::
+       Use merging strategies to rebase.  When the recursive (default) merge
+       strategy is used, this allows rebase to be aware of renames on the
+       upstream side.
+
+-s <strategy>, \--strategy=<strategy>::
+       Use the given merge strategy; can be supplied more than
+       once to specify them in the order they should be tried.
+       If there is no `-s` option, a built-in list of strategies
+       is used instead (`git-merge-recursive` when merging a single
+       head, `git-merge-octopus` otherwise).  This implies --merge.
+
+include::merge-strategies.txt[]
+
 NOTES
 -----
 When you rebase a branch, you are changing its history in a way that