Description
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
Contained in:
https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/content/github/administering-a-repository/about-merge-methods-on-github.md
Which reads from:
https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/data/reusables/pull_requests/rebase_and_merge_summary.md
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
In the section Rebasing and merging your commits, the description says
Pull requests with rebased commits are merged using the fast-forward option.
However, this is not the case. Rebasing is actually done with the --force option as described later in the section where it clarifies that the commit hash and the committer will change. This is explicitly forced rebase behaviour and quite different from fast-forward, which leaves all commits as-is.
Additional information
I consider this confusing, as someone looking for a fast-forward merge option might stop at the end of the intro, thinking they have found the option they need, but in fact will get different behaviour.