From: Jeff King Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:47:30 +0000 (-0400) Subject: git-rebase: document suppression of duplicate commits X-Git-Tag: v1.5.4-rc0~357 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff9054627c40082ad4a1cf16afebb140fcda41a2;p=git.git git-rebase: document suppression of duplicate commits git-rebase uses format-patch's --ignore-if-in-upstream option, but we never document the user-visible behavior. The example is placed near the top of the example list rather than at the bottom because it is: a. a simple example b. a reasonably common scenario for many projects (mail some patches which get accepted upstream, then rebase) [sp: Corrected direction of 'HEAD..' set comparsion] Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index e8e75790f..e4326d332 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ The current branch is reset to , or if the `git reset --hard ` (or ). The commits that were previously saved into the temporary area are -then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order. +then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order. Note that +any commits in HEAD which introduce the same textual changes as a commit +in HEAD.. are omitted (i.e., a patch already accepted upstream +with a different commit message or timestamp will be skipped). It is possible that a merge failure will prevent this process from being completely automatic. You will have to resolve any such merge failure @@ -62,6 +65,26 @@ would be: The latter form is just a short-hand of `git checkout topic` followed by `git rebase master`. +If the upstream branch already contains a change you have made (e.g., +because you mailed a patch which was applied upstream), then that commit +will be skipped. For example, running `git-rebase master` on the +following history (in which A' and A introduce the same set of changes, +but have different committer information): + +------------ + A---B---C topic + / + D---E---A'---F master +------------ + +will result in: + +------------ + B'---C' topic + / + D---E---A'---F master +------------ + Here is how you would transplant a topic branch based on one branch to another, to pretend that you forked the topic branch from the latter branch, using `rebase --onto`.