Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-rebase.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 4b10304740f5035095c19be05859ae0b9205e9a0..7166414355e7469c5aeae0262f3902ce7398c989 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -213,19 +213,22 @@ OPTIONS
 --skip::
        Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch.
 
--m, \--merge::
+-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.
 
--s <strategy>, \--strategy=<strategy>::
+-s <strategy>::
+--strategy=<strategy>::
        Use the given merge strategy; can be supplied more than
        once to specify them in the order they should be tried.
        If there is no `-s` option, a built-in list of strategies
        is used instead (`git-merge-recursive` when merging a single
        head, `git-merge-octopus` otherwise).  This implies --merge.
 
--v, \--verbose::
+-v::
+--verbose::
        Display a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase.
 
 -C<n>::
@@ -238,12 +241,14 @@ OPTIONS
        This flag is passed to the `git-apply` program
        (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch.
 
--i, \--interactive::
+-i::
+--interactive::
        Make a list of the commits which are about to be rebased.  Let the
        user edit that list before rebasing.  This mode can also be used to
        split commits (see SPLITTING COMMITS below).
 
--p, \--preserve-merges::
+-p::
+--preserve-merges::
        Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them.  This option
        only works in interactive mode.
 
@@ -262,8 +267,7 @@ hook if one exists.  You can use this hook to do sanity checks and
 reject the rebase if it isn't appropriate.  Please see the template
 pre-rebase hook script for an example.
 
-You must be in the top directory of your project to start (or continue)
-a rebase.  Upon completion, <branch> will be the current branch.
+Upon completion, <branch> will be the current branch.
 
 INTERACTIVE MODE
 ----------------
@@ -402,4 +406,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite