Merge branch 'cc/bisect'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index ed3a92404b425e66caa9213e67c27f559af172e2..ef1f055c8574e928c8e05c820f2f1cc962e3d422 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-merge' [-n] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+'git-merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
        [-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
 'git-merge' <msg> HEAD <remote>...
 
@@ -46,18 +46,7 @@ linkgit:git-reset[1].
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
-
-merge.summary::
-       Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
-       created merge commit. False by default.
-
-merge.verbosity::
-       Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
-       strategy.  Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error
-       message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
-       conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes.  Level 5 and
-       above outputs debugging information.  The default is level 2.
-       Can be overridden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
+include::merge-config.txt[]
 
 branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
        Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
@@ -68,20 +57,21 @@ 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