# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com>
# Date 1408403576 -7200
# Node ID 0f0b204b399c56168678f0c416ab6ab1a77b14bc
# Parent  ce8cea923a6caa90501a901ff1df351edc6fe012
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

diff -r ce8cea923a6c -r 0f0b204b399c hgext/rebase.py
--- 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'),