From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: (qmail 18580 invoked by uid 111); 4 May 2008 17:10:43 -0000 Received: from vger.kernel.org (HELO vger.kernel.org) (209.132.176.167) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 May 2008 13:10:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750931AbYEDRKM (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 13:10:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750811AbYEDRKM (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 13:10:12 -0400 Received: from sd-green-bigip-202.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.202]:59740 "EHLO randymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750737AbYEDRKL (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 13:10:11 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-24-91-11-245.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.91.11.245]) by randymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D95185D5A; Sun, 4 May 2008 10:10:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Ballard To: git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kevin Ballard Subject: [PATCH (resend)] filter-branch: Fix word usage in documentation Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 13:10:09 -0400 Message-Id: <1209921009-19537-1-git-send-email-kevin@sb.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.5.1.243.g4a6979 To: Junio C Hamano Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org The documentation for --commit-filter in git-filter-branch talks about setting multiple parents for the "ancestors of the original commit". This is logically impossible. I believe the intended word was "descendants". Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 8d80f0d..959a9e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OPTIONS stdin. The commit id is expected on stdout. + As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple -commit ids; in that case, ancestors of the original commit will +commit ids; in that case, descendants of the original commit will have all of them as parents. + You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other -- 1.5.5.1.243.g4a6979