X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=dgit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=git-debrebase.5.pod;h=e445c0e6001354bd337d8b01f7b8859ed98150d1;hp=5cfa3761080eb5c6accffa98cfd6682b72cbffa0;hb=055b375542a2f1c00ca46e76ae9a8e6bf6372ebc;hpb=4eee70a2b1710c1a8fc71fbd3cdc7064682a799c diff --git a/git-debrebase.5.pod b/git-debrebase.5.pod index 5cfa3761..e445c0e6 100644 --- a/git-debrebase.5.pod +++ b/git-debrebase.5.pod @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ itself is not very suitable for use by Debian derivatives, to work on packages inherited from Debian, because it assumes that you want to throw away any packaging provided by your upstream. -However, of git-debrebase in Debian does not make anything harder for +However, use of git-debrebase in Debian does not make anything harder for derivatives, and it can make some things easier. =head1 TERMINOLOGY @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ known as B. While a branch is unstitched, it is not in interchange format. The previous interchange branch tip -tip is recorded, +is recorded, so that the previous history and the user's work can later be @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ general merges on any of the relevant branches. For this reason the tools will try to help the user avoid divergence of the interchange branch. -See dgit-maint-rebase(7) XXX TBD -for a discussio of what kinds of behaviours +See dgit-maint-rebase(7) +for a discussion of what kinds of behaviours should be be avoided because they might generate such merges. @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ Nonlinear (merging) history in the breakwater branch is in principle tolerable, but each of the parents would have to be, in turn, a breakwater, -and difficult qeustions arise if they don't have the same anchor. +and difficult questions arise if they don't have the same anchor. We use the commit message annotation to distinguish the special anchor merges from other general merges, @@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ The full set of annotations is: Only anchor merges have the C<[git-debrebase anchor: ...]> tag. Single-parent anchors are not generated by git-debrebase, -and when made manually should not be tagged. +and when made manually should not +contain any C<[git-debrebase ...]> annotation. The C and C tags are added to the pre-existing commit message,