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diff --git a/Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst b/Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst index 09f988e7fa71..85800ce95ae5 100644 --- a/Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst +++ b/Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst @@ -213,11 +213,7 @@ point rather than some random spot. If your upstream-bound branch has emptied entirely into the mainline during the merge window, you can pull it forward with a command like:: - git merge v5.2-rc1^0 - -The "^0" will cause Git to do a fast-forward merge (which should be -possible in this situation), thus avoiding the addition of a spurious merge -commit. + git merge --ff-only v5.2-rc1 The guidelines laid out above are just that: guidelines. There will always be situations that call out for a different solution, and these guidelines |