doc: clarify rerere-autoupdate

The "--[no-]rerere-autoupdate" option controls what happens _after_
the rerere mechanism kicks in to reuse recorded resolutions and does
not prevent from the rerere mechanism to trigger in the first place.

It is unclear in the current text if "--no-rerere-autoupdate" stops
the auto-resolution.  Rewrite the sentence to clarify.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/rerere-options.txt b/Documentation/rerere-options.txt
index 8f4849e272ee48d2ac2b262bbbf19659920949bd..c3321ddea248739f1a0413b134ac401fd0b71794 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rerere-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rerere-options.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 --rerere-autoupdate::
 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
-       Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
-       result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
+       After the rerere mechanism reuses a recorded resolution on
+       the current conflict to update the files in the working
+       tree, allow it to also update the index with the result of
+       resolution.  `--no-rerere-autoupdate` is a good way to
+       double-check what `rerere` did and catch potential
+       mismerges, before committing the result to the index with a
+       separate `git add`.