Merge branch 'js/reverse'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index 116dca4c0668488a0ba55b43a10e89c40f087b59..139b6eb7733aaf246af8ce77f6483fa15e5de2b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ git-rerere(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolve
+git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-rerere' [clear|diff|status]
+'git-rerere' [clear|diff|status|gc]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ its working state.
 
 This resets the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be
 is aborted.  Calling gitlink:git-am[1] --skip or gitlink:git-rebase[1]
-[--skip|--abort] will automatcally invoke this command.
+[--skip|--abort] will automatically invoke this command.
 
 'diff'::
 
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ for resolutions.
 'gc'::
 
 This command is used to prune records of conflicted merge that
-occurred long time ago.
+occurred long time ago.  By default, conflicts older than 15
+days that you have not recorded their resolution, and conflicts
+older than 60 days, are pruned.  These are controlled with
+`gc.rerereunresolved` and `gc.rerereresolved` configuration
+variables.
 
 
 DISCUSSION
@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ One way to do it is to pull master into the topic branch:
 
 ------------
        $ git checkout topic
-       $ git pull . master
+       $ git merge master
 
               o---*---o---+ topic
              /           /
@@ -99,10 +103,10 @@ in which case the final commit graph would look like this:
 
 ------------
        $ git checkout topic
-       $ git pull . master
+       $ git merge master
        $ ... work on both topic and master branches
        $ git checkout master
-       $ git pull . topic
+       $ git merge topic
 
               o---*---o---+---o---o topic
              /           /         \
@@ -122,11 +126,11 @@ top of the tip before the test merge:
 
 ------------
        $ git checkout topic
-       $ git pull . master
+       $ git merge master
        $ git reset --hard HEAD^ ;# rewind the test merge
        $ ... work on both topic and master branches
        $ git checkout master
-       $ git pull . topic
+       $ git merge topic
 
               o---*---o-------o---o topic
              /                     \