Create a clear top-down structure which makes it hopefully unambiguous what happens when. Also mention the timestamp along with the author - this is primarily meant to include the keywords somebody might be searching for, like I did a year ago. Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx> --- v2: - slight adjustments inspired by marc. however, i left most things unchanged or even went in the opposite direction, because i assume the readers to be sufficiently context-sensitive, and the objective is merely to be not actively confusing. adding redundancy in the name of clarity would just make the text stylistically inferior and arguably harder to read. Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index e7b39ad244..337df9ef2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -890,20 +890,21 @@ command "pick" with the command "reword". To drop a commit, replace the command "pick" with "drop", or just delete the matching line. -If you want to fold two or more commits into one, replace the command -"pick" for the second and subsequent commits with "squash" or "fixup". -If the commits had different authors, the folded commit will be -attributed to the author of the first commit. The suggested commit -message for the folded commit is the concatenation of the first -commit's message with those identified by "squash" commands, omitting the -messages of commits identified by "fixup" commands, unless "fixup -c" -is used. In that case the suggested commit message is only the message -of the "fixup -c" commit, and an editor is opened allowing you to edit -the message. The contents (patch) of the "fixup -c" commit are still -incorporated into the folded commit. If there is more than one "fixup -c" -commit, the message from the final one is used. You can also use -"fixup -C" to get the same behavior as "fixup -c" except without opening -an editor. +If you want to fold two or more commits into one (that is, to combine +their contents/patches), replace the command "pick" for the second and +subsequent commits with "squash" or "fixup". +The commit message for the folded commit is the concatenation of the +message of the first commit with those of commits identified by "squash" +commands, omitting those of commits identified by "fixup" commands, +unless "fixup -c" is used. In the latter case, the message is obtained +only from the "fixup -c" commit (having more than one of these is +incorrect). +If the resulting commit message is a concatenation of multiple messages, +an editor is opened allowing you to edit it. This is also the case for a +message obtained via "fixup -c", while using "fixup -C" instead skips +the editor; this is analogous to the behavior of `git commit`. +The first commit which contributes to the suggested commit message also +determines the author, along with the date/timestamp. `git rebase` will stop when "pick" has been replaced with "edit" or when a command fails due to merge errors. When you are done editing -- 2.42.0.419.g70bf8a5751
