[man bug?] git rebase --preserve-merges

Constantine Plotnikov· Dec 2, 2008, 16:45 UTC · lore

The man page for git rebase mentions "--preserve-merges" command line option but this option does not seems to be available.

Also if this option is specified, the following usage statement is printed:

Usage: git rebase [--interactive | -i] [-v] [--onto <newbase>]
<upstream> [<branch>]

And this usage statement does not mention -m and -s options that seems to be available. I assume that the problem is the obsolete documentation.

Regards, Constantine

Andreas Ericsson· Dec 3, 2008, 07:43 UTC · re: Constantine Plotnikov · lore

Re: [man bug?] git rebase --preserve-merges

Constantine Plotnikov wrote:

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> The man page for git rebase mentions "--preserve-merges" command line
> option but this option does not seems to be available.
> 
> Also if this option is specified, the following usage statement is printed:
> 
> Usage: git rebase [--interactive | -i] [-v] [--onto <newbase>]
> <upstream> [<branch>]
> 
> And this usage statement does not mention -m and -s options that seems
> to be available. I assume that the problem is the obsolete
> documentation.
>

You're probably using an old git where merge-preserving rebase is only available for interactive mode. Check the man-page again, and thoroughly this time ;-)

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