On Sun, May 21, 2023, at 00:27, Junio C Hamano wrote: > My reading also hiccupped with "replay"; the first sentence to > explain the command says "incorporate the changes", and that may be > a less confusing expression; "replay" somehow makes me imagine that > the changes are cherry-picked one by one---it may be only me, so I > left it as-is in the suggestion above. Yeah, it made me think of cherry-picks, essentially (specifically a rebase). “Replaying” doesn’t seem relevant in this context, but that’s just based on my layman conceptualization of how git-merge works. “will replay the changes made on the” comes from b40bb374a61 (Documentation: merge: add an overview, 2010-01-23), which expanded the first paragraph of Description and added the two examples. -- Kristoffer Haugsbakk