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Documentation/git-rebase.txt: -f forces a rebase that would otherwise be a no-op
"Current branch is a descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto" does not necessarily mean "rebase" requires "--force". For a plain vanilla "history flattening" rebase, the rebase can be done without forcing if there is a merge between the tip of the branch being rebased and the commit you are rebasing onto, even if the tip is descendant of the other. [jc: reworded both the text and the log description] Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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--force-rebase::
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Force the rebase even if the current branch is a descendant
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of the commit you are rebasing onto. Normally non-interactive rebase will
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exit with the message "Current branch is up to date" in such a
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situation.
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Incompatible with the --interactive option.
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Force a rebase even if the current branch is up-to-date and
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the command without `--force` would return without doing anything.
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You may find this (or --no-ff with an interactive rebase) helpful after
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reverting a topic branch merge, as this option recreates the topic branch with

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