Merge branch 'jc/maint-fetch-regression-1.5.4'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-branch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index f87b6968b4808ebc7f831c814ca7e62924a19642..6f07a17a2c310a67f23034c520ab10670407c006 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git-branch' [--color | --no-color] [-r | -a]
           [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]]
+          [--contains <commit>]
 'git-branch' [--track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>]
 'git-branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch>
 'git-branch' (-d | -D) [-r] <branchname>...
@@ -20,6 +21,9 @@ With no arguments given a list of existing branches
 will be shown, the current branch will be highlighted with an asterisk.
 Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking branches to be listed,
 and option `-a` shows both.
+With `--contains <commit>`, shows only the branches that
+contains the named commit (in other words, the branches whose
+tip commits are descendant of the named commit).
 
 In its second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created.
 It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
@@ -30,12 +34,11 @@ Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
 working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
 new branch.
 
-When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
-branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
-remote branch.  If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it
-the default using the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration
-flag.  Otherwise, it can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
-and `--no-track` options.
+When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git sets up the
+branch so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from
+the remote branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
+`branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be
+overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options.
 
 With a '-m' or '-M' option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
 If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match
@@ -49,8 +52,8 @@ has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted.
 
 Use -r together with -d to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
 only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist
-in remote repository or if gitlink:git-fetch[1] was configured not to fetch
-them again. See also 'prune' subcommand of gitlink:git-remote[1] for way to
+in remote repository or if linkgit:git-fetch[1] was configured not to fetch
+them again. See also 'prune' subcommand of linkgit:git-remote[1] for way to
 clean up all obsolete remote-tracking branches.
 
 
@@ -101,24 +104,24 @@ OPTIONS
        Display the full sha1s in output listing rather than abbreviating them.
 
 --track::
-       Set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
-       retrieve data from the remote branch.  Use this if you always
-       pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
-       don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly.  Set the
-       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
-       want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
-       '--track' were given.
+       When creating a new branch, set up configuration so that git-pull
+       will automatically retrieve data from the start point, which must be
+       a branch. Use this if you always pull from the same upstream branch
+       into the new branch, and if you don't want to use "git pull
+       <repository> <refspec>" explicitly. This behavior is the default
+       when the start point is a remote branch. Set the
+       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you want
+       git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if '--no-track' were
+       given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the
+       start-point is either a local or remote branch.
 
 --no-track::
-       When a branch is created off a remote branch,
-       set up configuration so that git-pull will not retrieve data
-       from the remote branch, ignoring the branch.autosetupmerge
-       configuration variable.
+       Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable.
 
 <branchname>::
        The name of the branch to create or delete.
        The new branch name must pass all checks defined by
-       gitlink:git-check-ref-format[1].  Some of these checks
+       linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1].  Some of these checks
        may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name.
 
 <start-point>::
@@ -160,7 +163,7 @@ $ git branch -D test                                    <2>
 +
 <1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man". Next 'fetch' or
 'pull' will create them again unless you configure them not to. See
-gitlink:git-fetch[1].
+linkgit:git-fetch[1].
 <2> Delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch is
 currently checked out) does not have all commits from test branch.
 
@@ -183,4 +186,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite