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[PATCH] Documentation: reword rebase summary

From
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2016, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID
<1456872598-32571-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

The wording is introduced in c3f0baaca (Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title, 2007-01-18), but rebase has evolved since then, capture the modern usage by being more generic about the rebase command in the summary.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---
 Inspired by
 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/git-rebase-and-the-golden-rule-explained-70715eccc372
 (I tried to cc the author, but I am not sure if I got the right email address)
 
 Thanks,
 Stefan
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 6cca8bb..6ed610a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-rebase(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head
+git-rebase - Reapply commits on top of another base tip
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-- 
2.8.0.rc0
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  2. Jacob KellerMar 1, 2016
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