Merge branch 'db/learn-HEAD'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 1521a9ee0fec3a825bdbade4869012b7c3cf3bf7..c136b1069230af55b62ba95a1b40bdcc019b7b42 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ include::merge-strategies.txt[]
 
 If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
 would want to start over, you can recover with
-gitlink:git-reset[1].
+linkgit:git-reset[1].
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
@@ -68,20 +68,21 @@ HOW MERGE WORKS
 ---------------
 
 A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
-remote branch heads, and the index file must exactly match the
+commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
+exactly match the
 tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit) when
 it happens.  In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
 report no changes.
 
 [NOTE]
-This is a bit of lie.  In certain special cases, your index are
-allowed to be different from the tree of `HEAD` commit.  The most
+This is a bit of a lie.  In certain special cases, your index is
+allowed to be different from the tree of the `HEAD` commit.  The most
 notable case is when your `HEAD` commit is already ahead of what
 is being merged, in which case your index can have arbitrary
-difference from your `HEAD` commit.  Otherwise, your index entries
-are allowed have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
-the result of trivial merge (e.g. you received the same patch
-from external source to produce the same result as what you are
+differences from your `HEAD` commit.  Also, your index entries
+may have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
+the result of a trivial merge (e.g. you received the same patch
+from an external source to produce the same result as what you are
 merging).  For example, if a path did not exist in the common
 ancestor and your head commit but exists in the tree you are
 merging into your repository, and if you already happen to have
@@ -163,8 +164,8 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-fmt-merge-msg[1], gitlink:git-pull[1],
-gitlink:gitattributes[5]
+linkgit:git-fmt-merge-msg[1], linkgit:git-pull[1],
+linkgit:gitattributes[5]
 
 
 Author
@@ -178,4 +179,4 @@ 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