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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-11-04 14:20:49 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-11-04 14:20:49 -0800
commit684fea37948d720cc69b3553b42353b4b42709dc (patch)
treeb89542cdb28e65a958938c7f51f0df97e7d0b68c
parent6c66686e0b917df914af779257479c341590a9a0 (diff)
parentb2af4829cc51fc90885948f19f24b76f2670a677 (diff)
downloadgit-684fea37948d720cc69b3553b42353b4b42709dc.tar.gz
Merge branch 'xf/user-manual-ff' into maint
* xf/user-manual-ff: user-manual: fix the description of fast-forward
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt10
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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 764a270c83..1c790ac74a 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1431,11 +1431,11 @@ differently. Normally, a merge results in a merge commit, with two
parents, one pointing at each of the two lines of development that
were merged.
-However, if the current branch is a descendant of the other--so every
-commit present in the one is already contained in the other--then Git
-just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved
-forward to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new
-commits being created.
+However, if the current branch is an ancestor of the other--so every commit
+present in the current branch is already contained in the other branch--then Git
+just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved forward
+to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new commits being
+created.
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