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--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--onto <newbase> | --keep-base] [<upstream> [<branch>]]
'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [<options>] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
--root [<branch>]
-'git rebase' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --edit-todo | --show-current-patch)
+'git rebase' (--continue|--skip|--abort|--quit|--edit-todo|--show-current-patch)
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -289,17 +289,25 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
+
See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
---empty=(drop|keep|ask)::
+--empty=(drop|keep|stop)::
How to handle commits that are not empty to start and are not
clean cherry-picks of any upstream commit, but which become
empty after rebasing (because they contain a subset of already
- upstream changes). With drop (the default), commits that
- become empty are dropped. With keep, such commits are kept.
- With ask (implied by `--interactive`), the rebase will halt when
- an empty commit is applied allowing you to choose whether to
- drop it, edit files more, or just commit the empty changes.
- Other options, like `--exec`, will use the default of drop unless
- `-i`/`--interactive` is explicitly specified.
+ upstream changes):
++
+--
+`drop`;;
+ The commit will be dropped. This is the default behavior.
+`keep`;;
+ The commit will be kept. This option is implied when `--exec` is
+ specified unless `-i`/`--interactive` is also specified.
+`stop`;;
+`ask`;;
+ The rebase will halt when the commit is applied, allowing you to
+ choose whether to drop it, edit files more, or just commit the empty
+ changes. This option is implied when `-i`/`--interactive` is
+ specified. `ask` is a deprecated synonym of `stop`.
+--
+
Note that commits which start empty are kept (unless `--no-keep-empty`
is specified), and commits which are clean cherry-picks (as determined
@@ -523,7 +531,7 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
+
The commit list format can be changed by setting the configuration option
rebase.instructionFormat. A customized instruction format will automatically
-have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
+have the commit hash prepended to the format.
+
See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
@@ -589,21 +597,27 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
--autosquash::
--no-autosquash::
- When the commit log message begins with "squash! ..." or "fixup! ..."
- or "amend! ...", and there is already a commit in the todo list that
- matches the same `...`, automatically modify the todo list of
- `rebase -i`, so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after
- the commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved commit
- from `pick` to `squash` or `fixup` or `fixup -C` respectively. A commit
- matches the `...` if the commit subject matches, or if the `...` refers
- to the commit's hash. As a fall-back, partial matches of the commit
- subject work, too. The recommended way to create fixup/amend/squash
- commits is by using the `--fixup`, `--fixup=amend:` or `--fixup=reword:`
- and `--squash` options respectively of linkgit:git-commit[1].
+ Automatically squash commits with specially formatted messages into
+ previous commits being rebased. If a commit message starts with
+ "squash! ", "fixup! " or "amend! ", the remainder of the subject line
+ is taken as a commit specifier, which matches a previous commit if it
+ matches the subject line or the hash of that commit. If no commit
+ matches fully, matches of the specifier with the start of commit
+ subjects are considered.
++
+In the rebase todo list, the actions of squash, fixup and amend commits are
+changed from `pick` to `squash`, `fixup` or `fixup -C`, respectively, and they
+are moved right after the commit they modify. The `--interactive` option can
+be used to review and edit the todo list before proceeding.
+
-If the `--autosquash` option is enabled by default using the
-configuration variable `rebase.autoSquash`, this option can be
-used to override and disable this setting.
+The recommended way to create commits with squash markers is by using the
+`--squash`, `--fixup`, `--fixup=amend:` or `--fixup=reword:` options of
+linkgit:git-commit[1], which take the target commit as an argument and
+automatically fill in the subject line of the new commit from that.
++
+Setting configuration variable `rebase.autoSquash` to true enables
+auto-squashing by default for interactive rebase. The `--no-autosquash`
+option can be used to override that setting.
+
See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
@@ -620,13 +634,16 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
Automatically reschedule `exec` commands that failed. This only makes
sense in interactive mode (or when an `--exec` option was provided).
+
-Even though this option applies once a rebase is started, it's set for
-the whole rebase at the start based on either the
-`rebase.rescheduleFailedExec` configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]
-or "CONFIGURATION" below) or whether this option is
-provided. Otherwise an explicit `--no-reschedule-failed-exec` at the
-start would be overridden by the presence of
-`rebase.rescheduleFailedExec=true` configuration.
+This option applies once a rebase is started. It is preserved for the whole
+rebase based on, in order, the command line option provided to the initial `git
+rebase`, the `rebase.rescheduleFailedExec` configuration (see
+linkgit:git-config[1] or "CONFIGURATION" below), or it defaults to false.
++
+Recording this option for the whole rebase is a convenience feature. Otherwise
+an explicit `--no-reschedule-failed-exec` at the start would be overridden by
+the presence of a `rebase.rescheduleFailedExec=true` configuration when `git
+rebase --continue` is invoked. Currently, you cannot pass
+`--[no-]reschedule-failed-exec` to `git rebase --continue`.
--update-refs::
--no-update-refs::
@@ -695,7 +712,7 @@ be dropped automatically with `--no-keep-empty`).
Similar to the apply backend, by default the merge backend drops
commits that become empty unless `-i`/`--interactive` is specified (in
which case it stops and asks the user what to do). The merge backend
-also has an `--empty=(drop|keep|ask)` option for changing the behavior
+also has an `--empty=(drop|keep|stop)` option for changing the behavior
of handling commits that become empty.
Directory rename detection
@@ -957,10 +974,9 @@ The interactive rebase will stop when a command fails (i.e. exits with
non-0 status) to give you an opportunity to fix the problem. You can
continue with `git rebase --continue`.
-The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the one specified
-in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
-use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from
-the root of the working tree.
+The "exec" command launches the command in a shell (the default one, usually
+/bin/sh), so you can use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command
+is run from the root of the working tree.
----------------------------------
$ git rebase -i --exec "make test"