Merge branch 'gb/refactor-pathinfo'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index f3459c7de7c9629f2abfdb684a359bb264ea82ed..d639985693705930cba6f078b0bd1f8b61b65da4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [-v | --verbose] [-m | --merge]
-       [-s <strategy> | --strategy=<strategy>]
+       [-s <strategy> | --strategy=<strategy>] [--no-verify]
        [-C<n>] [ --whitespace=<option>] [-p | --preserve-merges]
        [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
 'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
@@ -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":
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ branch to another, to pretend that you forked the topic branch
 from the latter branch, using `rebase --onto`.
 
 First let's assume your 'topic' is based on branch 'next'.
-For example feature developed in 'topic' depends on some
+For example, a feature developed in 'topic' depends on some
 functionality which is found in 'next'.
 
 ------------
@@ -102,9 +103,9 @@ functionality which is found in 'next'.
                             o---o---o  topic
 ------------
 
-We would want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master',
-for example because the functionality 'topic' branch depend on
-got merged into more stable 'master' branch, like this:
+We want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master'; for example,
+because the functionality on which 'topic' depends was merged into the
+more stable 'master' branch. We want our tree to look like this:
 
 ------------
     o---o---o---o---o  master
@@ -231,6 +232,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --verbose::
        Display a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase.
 
+--no-verify::
+       This option bypasses the pre-rebase hook.  See also linkgit:githooks[5].
+
 -C<n>::
        Ensure at least <n> lines of surrounding context match before
        and after each change.  When fewer lines of surrounding
@@ -249,8 +253,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -p::
 --preserve-merges::
-       Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them.  This option
-       only works in interactive mode.
+       Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them.
 
 include::merge-strategies.txt[]
 
@@ -397,7 +400,7 @@ 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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