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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 18 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index ec57a15ac5..4c22be20cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -766,6 +766,10 @@ branch.<name>.rebase:: "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non branch-specific manner. + + When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' + so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened + by running 'git pull'. ++ *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). @@ -1826,6 +1830,10 @@ pull.rebase:: pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a per-branch basis. + + When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' + so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened + by running 'git pull'. ++ *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 6ef8d599d3..beea10b148 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -102,12 +102,18 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] :git-pull: 1 -r:: ---rebase:: - 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. +--rebase[=false|true|preserve]:: + When true, 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. ++ +When preserve, also rebase the current branch on top of the upstream +branch, but pass `--preserve-merges` along to `git rebase` so that +locally created merge commits will not be flattened. ++ +When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch. + See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autosetuprebase` in linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use |