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diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt
index 6cc1c7921f0bab8ec2c2b02e47594f57246b141b..554909fe08de380aa02f2bf37f0f3b43b0233f4b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-and-edit.txt
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ Abstract: In this article, Linus demonstrates how a broken commit
 
 On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 
-> That's correct. Same things apply: you can move a patch over, and create a 
-> new one with a modified comment, but basically the _old_ commit will be 
+> That's correct. Same things apply: you can move a patch over, and create a
+> new one with a modified comment, but basically the _old_ commit will be
 > immutable.
 
 Let me clarify.
 
 You can entirely _drop_ old branches, so commits may be immutable, but
-nothing forces you to keep them. Of course, when you drop a commit, you'll 
-always end up dropping all the commits that depended on it, and if you 
-actually got somebody else to pull that commit you can't drop it from 
+nothing forces you to keep them. Of course, when you drop a commit, you'll
+always end up dropping all the commits that depended on it, and if you
+actually got somebody else to pull that commit you can't drop it from
 _their_ repository, but undoing things is not impossible.
 
 For example, let's say that you've made a mess of things: you've committed
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ want to save "b" and "c". What you can do is
        # for reference
        git branch broken
 
-       # Reset the main branch to three parents back: this 
+       # Reset the main branch to three parents back: this
        # effectively undoes the three top commits
        git reset HEAD^^^
        git checkout -f
@@ -59,17 +59,17 @@ Finally, check out the end result again:
 
 to see that everything looks sensible.
 
-And then, you can just remove the broken branch if you decide you really 
+And then, you can just remove the broken branch if you decide you really
 don't want it:
 
        # remove 'broken' branch
-       rm .git/refs/heads/broken
+       git branch -d broken
 
        # Prune old objects if you're really really sure
        git prune
 
-And yeah, I'm sure there are other ways of doing this. And as usual, the 
-above is totally untested, and I just wrote it down in this email, so if 
+And yeah, I'm sure there are other ways of doing this. And as usual, the
+above is totally untested, and I just wrote it down in this email, so if
 I've done something wrong, you'll have to figure it out on your own ;)
 
                        Linus
@@ -77,5 +77,3 @@ I've done something wrong, you'll have to figure it out on your own ;)
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