git-rebase.txt: correct out-of-date and misleading text about renames

newren · gitster · commit 6320813bc0da · 2021-08-05T08:57:40.000-07:00
Commit 58634db ("rebase: Allow merge strategies to be used when rebasing", 2006-06-21) added the --merge option to git-rebase so that renames could be detected (at least when using the `recursive` merge backend). However, git-am -3 gained that same ability in commit 579c9bb ("Use merge-recursive in git-am -3.", 2006-12-28). As such, the comment about being able to detect renames is not particularly noteworthy. Remove it. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -340,9 +340,7 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
 
 -m::
 --merge::
-	Use merging strategies to rebase.  When the recursive (default) merge
-	strategy is used, this allows rebase to be aware of renames on the
-	upstream side.  This is the default.
+	Using merging strategies to rebase (default).
 +
 Note that a rebase merge works by replaying each commit from the working
 branch on top of the <upstream> branch.  Because of this, when a merge
