Updating rebase help

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Greg Ward 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
> 
> Alternately, I liked Tim Delaney's suggestion:
> 
>   move changeset (and descendants) to a different parent
> 
> which is both concise and accurate. Nice.


I'll go for the 'a different parent' suggestion. the "branch" terms
itself is not so accurate as you can just rebase on one of your
ancestors, on the very sae branch than you.


-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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