Merge 1.5.1.5 in

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index 8b6b6512371fd67fbb56d06cf29e826d3ef69d56..7ff9b05e680cabc6513f9d8a6aa80eb7eccda82d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ git-rerere(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolve
+git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-rerere'
-
+'git-rerere' [clear|diff|status|gc]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -27,6 +26,42 @@ results and applying the previously recorded hand resolution.
 You need to create `$GIT_DIR/rr-cache` directory to enable this
 command.
 
+
+COMMANDS
+--------
+
+Normally, git-rerere is run without arguments or user-intervention.
+However, it has several commands that allow it to interact with
+its working state.
+
+'clear'::
+
+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 automatically invoke this command.
+
+'diff'::
+
+This displays diffs for the current state of the resolution.  It is
+useful for tracking what has changed while the user is resolving
+conflicts.  Additional arguments are passed directly to the system
+diff(1) command installed in PATH.
+
+'status'::
+
+Like diff, but this only prints the filenames that will be tracked
+for resolutions.
+
+'gc'::
+
+This command is used to prune records of conflicted merge that
+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
 ----------
 
@@ -46,7 +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
              /           /
@@ -68,10 +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
              /           /         \
@@ -91,11 +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
              /                     \
@@ -128,8 +163,7 @@ If this three-way merge resolves cleanly, the result is written
 out to your working tree file, so you would not have to manually
 resolve it.  Note that `git-rerere` leaves the index file alone,
 so you still need to do the final sanity checks with `git diff`
-(or `git diff -c`) and `git update-index` when you are
-satisfied.
+(or `git diff -c`) and `git add` when you are satisfied.
 
 As a convenience measure, `git-merge` automatically invokes
 `git-rerere` when it exits with a failed automerge, which