Updating rebase help

Sean Farley sean.michael.farley at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 13:00:46 CST 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> On 30 January 2013, Pierre-Yves David said:
>> I'm going to update the rebase help to refer to the --rev option. But I think
>> the help could use a more generic update.
>>
>> Below is the current help with inlined comment about what I would do.
>>
>> Discuss…
>>
>> > move changeset (and descendants) to a different branch
>>
>> We use "branch" here, people tend to confuse that with "named branch".
>> We could use "different point of the history".
>
> But the rebase help uses "branch" consistently with the glossary. Do
> you intend to modify the official description in the glossary, too?
>
> Hmmm: maybe "anonymous branch" would be clearer, e.g.
>
>   move changeset (and descendants) to a different anonymous branch

Hmm, could we distinguish between named branch vs. branch? Or would
that require too much change in docs / help strings?


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