Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.txt: update note about directory rename detection and am

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 9:51 AM Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@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 <newren@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@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.