Re: [PATCH] Alter git-rebase command line options.

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

sean wrote:

>   git rebase [--branch <branch>] <newbase>
>   git rebase --continue
>   git rebase --abort
> 
> Add "--continue" to restart the rebase process after
> manually resolving conflicts.  The user is warned if
> there are still differences between the index and the
> working files.
> 
> Add "--abort" to restore the original branch, and
> remove the .dotest working files.

Very nice.

>  SYNOPSIS
>  --------
> -'git-rebase' [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
> +'git-rebase' [--branch <branch>] <newbase>
> +
> +'git-rebase' --continue
> +
> +'git-rebase' --abort
>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> -git-rebase applies to <upstream> (or optionally to <newbase>) commits
> -from <branch> that do not appear in <upstream>. When <branch> is not
> -specified it defaults to the current branch (HEAD).
> +git-rebase replaces <branch> with a new branch of the same name having
> +a HEAD of <newbase>.  It then attempts to make a new commit for each
> +commit from the original <branch> that does not yet exist in this new
> +<branch>.

What about 'git-rebase --onto <newbase> <upstream> <branch>' three options
version?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland