From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/git-pull: clarify configuration
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:24:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110172431.GB11513@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289373188-32543-1-git-send-email-martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Hi again,
Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> The sentence about 'branch.<name>.rebase' refers to the first sentence
> in the paragraph. Clarify by putting it in a separate paragraph.
I think the patch clarifies by rewording a little, too. :)
> --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
> @@ -92,12 +92,15 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
> :git-pull: 1
>
> --rebase::
> - Instead of a merge, perform a rebase after fetching. If
> - there is a remote ref for the upstream branch, and this branch
> - was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that information
> - to avoid rebasing non-local changes. To make this the default
> - for branch `<name>`, set configuration `branch.<name>.rebase`
> - to `true`.
> + Instead of merging, rebase the current branch on top of the
> + upstream branch after fetching. If there is a remote-tracking
> + branch corresponding to the upstream branch and the upstream
> + branch was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that
> + information to avoid rebasing non-local changes.
> +
> + The default behavior is to merge rather than rebasing, but it
> + can be overridden per branch with the `branch.<name>.rebase`
> + configuration item (see git-config(1)).
> +
Do these changes result in good output with "make -C Documentation
git-pull.1" or "make -C Documentation git-pull.html"? I think it
might need to be
first paragraph
+
second paragraph
+
third paragraph
or similar.
Regards,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-10 7:13 [PATCH v2] Documentation/git-pull: clarify configuration Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-10 17:24 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-11 1:50 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-10 17:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-11 1:43 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2010-11-11 8:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
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