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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index 116dca4c0..7ff9b05e6 100644
--- 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
              /                     \
@@ -159,8 +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