Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:51 AM Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> In commit 6aba117d5cf7 ("am: avoid directory rename detection when >> calling recursive merge machinery", 2018-08-29), the git-rebase manpage >> probably should have also been updated to note the stronger >> incompatibility between git-am and directory rename detection. Update >> it now. >> >> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 5 +++-- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt >> index 41631df6e4..7bea21e8e3 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt >> @@ -569,8 +569,9 @@ it to keep commits that started empty. >> Directory rename detection >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> -The merge and interactive backends work fine with >> -directory rename detection. The am backend sometimes does not. >> +Directory rename heuristics are enabled in the merge and interactive >> +backends. Due to the lack of accurate tree information, directory >> +rename detection is disabled in the am backend. >> >> include::merge-strategies.txt[] > > I was intending to send this out the past couple days, was just kinda > busy. Thanks for handling it for me. Thanks, both. I can live with format=flowed, but would appreciate if we can avoid it next time.