Draft release notes to 1.8.0

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 147fa1a8e002daba2a465ed1f56c88838500cb53..fd535b06abf85ae166413ad0d24226240f8dd066 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>]
+'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
        [<upstream>] [<branch>]
-'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] --onto <newbase>
+'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>]
        --root [<branch>]
 'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort
 
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ rebase.autosquash::
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<newbase>::
+--onto <newbase>::
        Starting point at which to create the new commits. If the
        --onto option is not specified, the starting point is
        <upstream>.  May be any valid commit, and not just an
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ which makes little sense.
        Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy.
        This implies `--merge` and, if no strategy has been
        specified, `-s recursive`.  Note the reversal of 'ours' and
-       'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option.
+       'theirs' as noted above for the `-m` option.
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
@@ -344,14 +344,36 @@ This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it
 with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good
 idea unless you know what you are doing (see BUGS below).
 
+-x <cmd>::
+--exec <cmd>::
+       Append "exec <cmd>" after each line creating a commit in the
+       final history. <cmd> will be interpreted as one or more shell
+       commands.
++
+This option can only be used with the `--interactive` option
+(see INTERACTIVE MODE below).
++
+You may execute several commands by either using one instance of `--exec`
+with several commands:
++
+       git rebase -i --exec "cmd1 && cmd2 && ..."
++
+or by giving more than one `--exec`:
++
+       git rebase -i --exec "cmd1" --exec "cmd2" --exec ...
++
+If `--autosquash` is used, "exec" lines will not be appended for
+the intermediate commits, and will only appear at the end of each
+squash/fixup series.
 
 --root::
        Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of
        limiting them with an <upstream>.  This allows you to rebase
-       the root commit(s) on a branch.  Must be used with --onto, and
+       the root commit(s) on a branch.  When used with --onto, it
        will skip changes already contained in <newbase> (instead of
-       <upstream>).  When used together with --preserve-merges, 'all'
-       root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent
+       <upstream>) whereas without --onto it will operate on every change.
+       When used together with both --onto and --preserve-merges,
+       'all' root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent
        instead.
 
 --autosquash::
@@ -521,6 +543,24 @@ in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
 use shell features (like "cd", ">", ";" ...). The command is run from
 the root of the working tree.
 
+----------------------------------
+$ git rebase -i --exec "make test"
+----------------------------------
+
+This command lets you check that intermediate commits are compilable.
+The todo list becomes like that:
+
+--------------------
+pick 5928aea one
+exec make test
+pick 04d0fda two
+exec make test
+pick ba46169 three
+exec make test
+pick f4593f9 four
+exec make test
+--------------------
+
 SPLITTING COMMITS
 -----------------