# \[PATCH\] Documentation/git-filter-branch: Fix word usage for --commit-filter - From: Kevin Ballard \ - Date: 2016-08-13 23:22:51 - List: git - Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7693183 - Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7693183/t.md ```text The documentation for --commit-filter in git-filter-branch talks about setting multiple parents for the "ancestors of the original commit". It really meant to say the "children of the original commit". Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 8d80f0d..137e2ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OPTIONS stdin. The commit id is expected on stdout. + As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple -commit ids; in that case, ancestors of the original commit will +commit ids; in that case, children of the original commit will have all of them as parents. + You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other -- 1.5.5.1.373.g4a2ed ```