Michael J GruberDescribe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were introduced in these commits:
619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18) 61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20) 230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> --- The style in the two hunks is different so that it matches the surrounding text. Talking about a style guide...
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 4505eb6..afda5c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ edits from your current working tree. As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify `-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`. ++ +As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the +merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can +leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. <new_branch>:: Name for the new branch. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 5863dec..50ba2e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ OPTIONS --onto option is not specified, the starting point is <upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an existing branch name. ++ +As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the +merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can +leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. <upstream>:: Upstream branch to compare against. May be any valid commit,
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