# [PATCH] filter-branch: Fix word usage in documentation 1 messages from 2008-04-25 to 2008-04-25. Participants: Kevin Ballard. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43814 ## Kevin Ballard, 2008-04-25 16:16 Subject: [PATCH] filter-branch: Fix word usage in documentation Message-ID: <1209140219-79259-1-git-send-email-kevin@sb.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1209140219-79259-1-git-send-email-kevin%40sb.org ``` The documentation for --commit-filter in git-filter-branch talks about setting multiple parents for the "ancestors of the original commit". This is logically impossible. I believe the intended word was "descendants". Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 9d11b41..1fe2b42 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OPTIONS stdin. The commit id is expected on stdout. + As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple -commit ids; in that case, ancestors of the original commit will +commit ids; in that case, descendants of the original commit will have all of them as parents. + You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other -- 1.5.5.1.141.gd55b ```