From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:26:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-rebase.txt: make it explicit in the syntax there is no way to specify <branch> without <upstream>.
Message-ID: <xmqqiokn2zhc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87fvfrlg86.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> Current syntax description makes one wonder if there is any syntactic way
> to distinguish between <branch> and <upstream> so that one can specify
> <branch> but not <upstream>. The change makes it explicit that these
> arguments are in fact positional.

Makes sense.
Thanks.


>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
> ---
>  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 f14100a..4138554 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  --------
>  [verse]
>  'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
> -	[<upstream>] [<branch>]
> +	[<upstream> [<branch>]]
>  'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
>  	--root [<branch>]
>  'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo