{"thread":{"id":"43814","subject":"[PATCH] filter-branch: Fix word usage in documentation","startedAt":"2008-04-25T16:16:59Z","lastAt":"2008-04-25T16:16:59Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Kevin Ballard"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"299043","messageId":"1209140219-79259-1-git-send-email-kevin@sb.org","threadId":"43814","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] filter-branch: Fix word usage in documentation","fromName":"Kevin Ballard","fromEmail":"kevin@sb.org","sentAt":"2008-04-25T16:16:59Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-25T16:16:59Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"kevin@sb.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/714?v=4"},"body":"The documentation for --commit-filter in git-filter-branch talks about\nsetting multiple parents for the \"ancestors of the original commit\".\nThis is logically impossible. I believe the intended word was \"descendants\".\n\nSigned-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>\n---\n Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt |    2 +-\n 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt\nindex 9d11b41..1fe2b42 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt\n@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OPTIONS\n \tstdin.  The commit id is expected on stdout.\n +\n As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple\n-commit ids; in that case, ancestors of the original commit will\n+commit ids; in that case, descendants of the original commit will\n have all of them as parents.\n +\n You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other\n-- \n1.5.5.1.141.gd55b\n\n"}]}