From: Wesley Schwengle <wesley@schwengle.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:50:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document `rebase.forkpoint` in rebase man page
Message-ID: <287f826e-8fde-2c9a-ba66-a0a96e488b9c@schwengle.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4kakrvdc.fsf@gitster.g>

On 9/16/21 6:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> wesley@schwengle.net writes:
> 
>> From: Wesley Schwengle <wesley@opperschaap.net>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> So this still does not explain what rebase behaviour tricked you
> into thinking so.  That leaves the readers of "git log" frustrated,
> much more than a log message based only on a simple statement of
> fact, e.g.
> 
>      "git config --help" describes rebase.forkpoint as a way to give
>      the default value for --[no-]forkpoint option, but "git rebase
>      --help" does not mention it.
> 
>      Help people who visits the documentation of "rebase" to find the
>      variable.
> 
> or something like that.

I made a booboo. I did not run format-patch with the updated commit 
message and commit. I saw it too late. You should have a new one by the 
time you read this :)

Cheers,
Wesley


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