[PATCH] doc: improve readability of --rebase-merges in git-rebase

From: Naveen Nathan <naveen@lastninja.net>
Date: Nov 10, 2019, 09:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20191110095942.GB6071@a.local>

When --rebase-merges was introduced in 427c3bd28a the sentence describing the difference between --rebase-merges and --preserve-merges is a little unclear and difficult to parse. This patch improves readability while retaining original meaning.

Signed-off-by: Naveen Nathan <naveen@lastninja.net>
---
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 639a4179d1..6a826b47bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -442,9 +442,9 @@ i.e. commits that would be excluded by linkgit:git-log[1]'s
 the `rebase-cousins` mode is turned on, such commits are instead rebased
 onto `<upstream>` (or `<onto>`, if specified).
 +
-The `--rebase-merges` mode is similar in spirit to the deprecated
-`--preserve-merges`, but in contrast to that option works well in interactive
-rebases: commits can be reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
+The `--rebase-merges` mode is similar in spirit to `--preserve-merges`
+(deprecated) but actually works with interactive rebases, where commits
+can be reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
 +
 It is currently only possible to recreate the merge commits using the
 `recursive` merge strategy; Different merge strategies can be used only via

-- 
2.21.0