rev-list: handle missing tree objects properly

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 2f47495a4dc0e8fb7c27dd2bbe5f86a531ecffa2..1fbc6ebcde0945fe6bc8cc85e5fd31247c4879e4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -546,6 +546,28 @@ Other incompatible flag pairs:
  * --rebase-merges and --strategy
  * --rebase-merges and --strategy-option
 
+BEHAVIORAL DIFFERENCES
+-----------------------
+
+ * empty commits:
+
+    am-based rebase will drop any "empty" commits, whether the
+    commit started empty (had no changes relative to its parent to
+    start with) or ended empty (all changes were already applied
+    upstream in other commits).
+
+    merge-based rebase does the same.
+
+    interactive-based rebase will by default drop commits that
+    started empty and halt if it hits a commit that ended up empty.
+    The `--keep-empty` option exists for interactive rebases to allow
+    it to keep commits that started empty.
+
+  * directory rename detection:
+
+    merge-based and interactive-based rebases work fine with
+    directory rename detection.  am-based rebases sometimes do not.
+
 include::merge-strategies.txt[]
 
 NOTES
@@ -863,7 +885,7 @@ The ripple effect of a "hard case" recovery is especially bad:
 case" recovery too!
 
 REBASING MERGES
------------------
+---------------
 
 The interactive rebase command was originally designed to handle
 individual patch series. As such, it makes sense to exclude merge
@@ -938,8 +960,8 @@ rescheduled immediately, with a helpful message how to edit the todo list
 (this typically happens when a `reset` command was inserted into the todo
 list manually and contains a typo).
 
-The `merge` command will merge the specified revision into whatever is
-HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of
+The `merge` command will merge the specified revision(s) into whatever
+is HEAD at that time. With `-C <original-commit>`, the commit message of
 the specified merge commit will be used. When the `-C` is changed to
 a lower-case `-c`, the message will be opened in an editor after a
 successful merge so that the user can edit the message.
@@ -948,7 +970,8 @@ If a `merge` command fails for any reason other than merge conflicts (i.e.
 when the merge operation did not even start), it is rescheduled immediately.
 
 At this time, the `merge` command will *always* use the `recursive`
-merge strategy, with no way to choose a different one. To work around
+merge strategy for regular merges, and `octopus` for octopus merges,
+strategy, with no way to choose a different one. To work around
 this, an `exec` command can be used to call `git merge` explicitly,
 using the fact that the labels are worktree-local refs (the ref
 `refs/rewritten/onto` would correspond to the label `onto`, for example).