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@@ -308,6 +308,16 @@ which makes little sense.
root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent
instead.
+--autosquash::
+ When the commit log message begins with "squash! ..." (or
+ "fixup! ..."), and there is a commit whose title begins with
+ the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i
+ so that the commit marked for quashing come right after the
+ commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved
+ commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`).
++
+This option is only valid when '--interactive' option is used.
+
include::merge-strategies.txt[]
NOTES
@@ -382,9 +392,12 @@ If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the
command "pick" with the command "reword".
If you want to fold two or more commits into one, replace the command
-"pick" with "squash" for the second and subsequent commit. If the
-commits had different authors, it will attribute the squashed commit to
-the author of the first commit.
+"pick" for the second and subsequent commits with "squash" or "fixup".
+If the commits had different authors, the folded commit will be
+attributed to the author of the first commit. The suggested commit
+message for the folded commit is the concatenation of the commit
+messages of the first commit and of those with the "squash" command,
+but omits the commit messages of commits with the "fixup" command.
'git-rebase' will stop when "pick" has been replaced with "edit" or
when a command fails due to merge errors. When you are done editing
@@ -512,8 +525,8 @@ Easy case: The changes are literally the same.::
Hard case: The changes are not the same.::
This happens if the 'subsystem' rebase had conflicts, or used
- `\--interactive` to omit, edit, or squash commits; or if the
- upstream used one of `commit \--amend`, `reset`, or
+ `\--interactive` to omit, edit, squash, or fixup commits; or
+ if the upstream used one of `commit \--amend`, `reset`, or
`filter-branch`.