completely automatic. You will have to resolve any such merge failure
and run `git rebase --continue`. Another option is to bypass the commit
that caused the merge failure with `git rebase --skip`. To restore the
-original <branch> and remove the .git/rebase working files, use the command
-`git rebase --abort` instead.
+original <branch> and remove the .git/rebase-apply working files, use the
+command `git rebase --abort` instead.
Assume the following history exists and the current branch is "topic":
from the latter branch, using `rebase --onto`.
First let's assume your 'topic' is based on branch 'next'.
-For example feature developed in 'topic' depends on some
+For example, a feature developed in 'topic' depends on some
functionality which is found in 'next'.
------------
o---o---o topic
------------
-We would want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master',
-for example because the functionality 'topic' branch depend on
-got merged into more stable 'master' branch, like this:
+We want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master'; for example,
+because the functionality on which 'topic' depends was merged into the
+more stable 'master' branch. We want our tree to look like this:
------------
o---o---o---o---o master
Authors
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-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and
Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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