From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Constantine Plotnikov <constantine.plotnikov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [man bug?] git rebase --preserve-merges
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:43:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4936389C.9090904@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85647ef50812020845g7de701bbye4a43a4e992a264b@mail.gmail.com>
Constantine Plotnikov wrote:
> The man page for git rebase mentions "--preserve-merges" command line
> option but this option does not seems to be available.
>
> Also if this option is specified, the following usage statement is printed:
>
> Usage: git rebase [--interactive | -i] [-v] [--onto <newbase>]
> <upstream> [<branch>]
>
> And this usage statement does not mention -m and -s options that seems
> to be available. I assume that the problem is the obsolete
> documentation.
>
You're probably using an old git where merge-preserving rebase is only
available for interactive mode. Check the man-page again, and thoroughly
this time ;-)
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2008-12-02 16:45 [man bug?] git rebase --preserve-merges Constantine Plotnikov
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