merge: Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option

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

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index a403155052299dd0aaafd6bdfe0fec92d0d0ac7c..acbe1e16b2c6b3ea5f7cfe20a9a3794c6e982ac8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ merge.conflictstyle::
        marker and the original text before the `=======` marker.
 
 merge.log::
-       Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
-       merge commit messages. False by default.
+       In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
+       most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
+       actual commits that are being merged.  Defaults to false, and
+       true is a synoym for 20.
 
 merge.renameLimit::
        The number of files to consider when performing rename detection