On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> The wording is introduced in c3f0baaca (Documentation: sync git.txt
> command list and manual page title, 2007-01-18), but rebase has evolved
> since then, capture the modern usage by being more generic about the
> rebase command in the summary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
> ---
>
>  Inspired by
>  
> https://medium.freecodecamp.com/git-rebase-and-the-golden-rule-explained-70715eccc372
>  (I tried to cc the author, but I am not sure if I got the right email 
> address)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Stefan
>
>  Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> index 6cca8bb..6ed610a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-rebase(1)
>
>  NAME
>  ----
> -git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head
> +git-rebase - Reapply commits on top of another base tip
>

Seems like a reasonable summary to me, and definitely more fitting of
what rebase does today.

Thanks,
Jake
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