On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:51 AM Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> wrote:
>
> From: Elijah Newren <new...@gmail.com>
>
> In commit 6aba117d5cf7 ("am: avoid directory rename detection when
> calling recursive merge machinery", 2018-08-29), the git-rebase manpage
> probably should have also been updated to note the stronger
> incompatibility between git-am and directory rename detection. Update
> it now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <new...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org>
> ---
> Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> index 41631df6e4..7bea21e8e3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> @@ -569,8 +569,9 @@ it to keep commits that started empty.
> Directory rename detection
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> -The merge and interactive backends work fine with
> -directory rename detection. The am backend sometimes does not.
> +Directory rename heuristics are enabled in the merge and interactive
> +backends. Due to the lack of accurate tree information, directory
> +rename detection is disabled in the am backend.
>
> include::merge-strategies.txt[]
I was intending to send this out the past couple days, was just kinda
busy. Thanks for handling it for me.
