Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index eabd7ef33f6c01322fc3794341c8982573b516a4..7e328ea9dcf3a58a149b0b9bf40729be03f916b3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ 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>...
+'git merge' <msg> HEAD <remote>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -42,22 +42,11 @@ 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
 -------------
-
-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
+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
@@ -138,7 +128,7 @@ When there are conflicts, these things happen:
 3. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
    versions; stage1 stores the version from the common ancestor,
    stage2 from `HEAD`, and stage3 from the remote branch (you
-   can inspect the stages with `git-ls-files -u`).  The working
+   can inspect the stages with `git ls-files -u`).  The working
    tree files have the result of "merge" program; i.e. 3-way
    merge result with familiar conflict markers `<<< === >>>`.
 
@@ -154,7 +144,7 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
    up working tree changes made by 2. and 3.; `git-reset` can
    be used for this.
 
- * Resolve the conflicts.  `git-diff` would report only the
+ * Resolve the conflicts.  `git diff` would report only the
    conflicting paths because of the above 2. and 3..  Edit the
    working tree files into a desirable shape, `git-add` or `git-rm`
    them, to make the index file contain what the merge result
@@ -163,7 +153,8 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-gitlink:git-fmt-merge-msg[1], gitlink:git-pull[1]
+linkgit:git-fmt-merge-msg[1], linkgit:git-pull[1],
+linkgit:gitattributes[5]
 
 
 Author
@@ -177,4 +168,4 @@ 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[1] suite