[PATCH] Document `rebase.forkpoint` in rebase man page
From: <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-16 12:47:38
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Wesley Schwengle <redacted> The option exists and the rebase behaviour tricked me into thinking there was a bug with git. This will tell people how they can tweak the default behavior. Signed-off-by: Wesley Schwengle <redacted> --- Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 506345cb0e..8d2bee3365 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt@@ -446,7 +446,8 @@ When --fork-point is active, 'fork_point' will be used instead of ends up being empty, the <upstream> will be used as a fallback. + If <upstream> is given on the command line, then the default is -`--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`. +`--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`. You can override +this default by setting the configuration option `rebase.forkpoint` to false. + If your branch was based on <upstream> but <upstream> was rewound and your branch contains commits which were dropped, this option can be used
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