On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Currently, all of the examples for "man git-rebase" show rebasing from
> > a branch that has had no further development, which might mislead
> > readers into thinking that that is a necessary condition for rebasing,
> > so tweak the examples to show further development on such a branch to
> > clarify that.
>
> We state the status-quo in present tense to start problem
> description, so "Currently" is a noise word you can and should omit.
>
> As I already said, at least one example that rebases a branch that
> was forked from the midpoint of another branch, so the problem
> description is already false. If we apply this patch, do we lose
> all examples that rebase a branch that purely builds on top of the
> tip of another branch? That would also mislead readers into
> thinking that you need to advance the base branch before you can
> rebase the forked branch ;-).
i stand corrected. carry on. :-)
rday
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