Merge branch 'sg/travis-help-debug'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index fd5d748d1b508c9cef1063227b5c478952d3bc7e..aa66cbe41eaf070a74d98801ba973daeb8d15106 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ recursive::
        causing mismerges by tests done on actual merge commits
        taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history.
        Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving
-       renames.  This is the default merge strategy when
-       pulling or merging one branch.
+       renames, but currently cannot make use of detected
+       copies.  This is the default merge strategy when pulling
+       or merging one branch.
 +
 The 'recursive' strategy can take the following options:
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
 
 theirs;;
        This is the opposite of 'ours'; note that, unlike 'ours', there is
-       no 'theirs' merge stragegy to confuse this merge option with.
+       no 'theirs' merge strategy to confuse this merge option with.
 
 patience;;
        With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time
@@ -84,12 +85,14 @@ no-renormalize;;
        `merge.renormalize` configuration variable.
 
 no-renames;;
-       Turn off rename detection.
+       Turn off rename detection. This overrides the `merge.renames`
+       configuration variable.
        See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--no-renames`.
 
 find-renames[=<n>];;
        Turn on rename detection, optionally setting the similarity
-       threshold.  This is the default.
+       threshold.  This is the default. This overrides the
+       'merge.renames' configuration variable.
        See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--find-renames`.
 
 rename-threshold=<n>;;