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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index e2954aa76eef46101f38683eb346bd31bf711a40..d285cba033325f8652996ea71a06d53c22424dae 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ git-merge(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-merge - Grand Unified Merge Driver
+git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-merge' [-n] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
-       [--reflog-action=<action>]
-       -m=<msg> <remote> <remote>...
+'git-merge' [-n] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+       [-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -37,11 +36,6 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
        least one <remote>.  Specifying more than one <remote>
        obviously means you are trying an Octopus.
 
---reflog-action=<action>::
-       This is used internally when `git-pull` calls this command
-       to record that the merge was created by `pull` command
-       in the `ref-log` entry that results from the merge.
-
 include::merge-strategies.txt[]
 
 
@@ -101,7 +95,7 @@ When things cleanly merge, these things happen:
 1. the results are updated both in the index file and in your
    working tree,
 2. index file is written out as a tree,
-3. the tree gets committed, and 
+3. the tree gets committed, and
 4. the `HEAD` pointer gets advanced.
 
 Because of 2., we require that the original state of the index
@@ -142,7 +136,7 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
 
  * 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-update-index`
+   working tree files into a desirable shape, `git-add` or `git-rm`
    them, to make the index file contain what the merge result
    should be, and run `git-commit` to commit the result.