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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

  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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