changeset 22388:0f0b204b399c

rebase: improve description of --base No Mercurial DAG has ever (!) been drawn in a way where 'up to' would apply. Instead, describe deliberatey vague and informal instead of seemingly precise but not describing the essentials: rebase the tree around the specified changeset without ancestors of dest
author Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com>
date Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:12:56 +0200
parents ce8cea923a6c
children 94f77624dbb5
files hgext/rebase.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/hgext/rebase.py	Fri Aug 15 19:43:32 2014 +0200
+++ b/hgext/rebase.py	Tue Aug 19 01:12:56 2014 +0200
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
     [('s', 'source', '',
      _('rebase from the specified changeset'), _('REV')),
     ('b', 'base', '',
-     _('rebase from the base of the specified changeset '
-       '(up to greatest common ancestor of base and dest)'),
+     _('rebase the tree around the specified changeset without '
+       'ancestors of dest'),
      _('REV')),
     ('r', 'rev', [],
      _('rebase these revisions'),