Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 259dce49945089de03ad2c0ac8ae8e56cfdc04e0..3a62f50edae9cdc772cb1009cf839b18e0079a9c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
                   [--start-number <n>] [--numbered-files]
                   [--in-reply-to=Message-Id] [--suffix=.<sfx>]
                   [--ignore-if-in-upstream]
-                  [--subject-prefix=Subject-Prefix]
+                  [--subject-prefix=Subject-Prefix] [(--reroll-count|-v) <n>]
                   [--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>]
                   [--cover-letter] [--quiet] [--notes[=<ref>]]
                   [<common diff options>]
@@ -166,6 +166,15 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`.
        allows for useful naming of a patch series, and can be
        combined with the `--numbered` option.
 
+-v <n>::
+--reroll-count=<n>::
+       Mark the series as the <n>-th iteration of the topic. The
+       output filenames have `v<n>` pretended to them, and the
+       subject prefix ("PATCH" by default, but configurable via the
+       `--subject-prefix` option) has ` v<n>` appended to it.  E.g.
+       `--reroll-count=4` may produce `v4-0001-add-makefile.patch`
+       file that has "Subject: [PATCH v4 1/20] Add makefile" in it.
+
 --to=<email>::
        Add a `To:` header to the email headers. This is in addition
        to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
@@ -199,14 +208,14 @@ The expected use case of this is to write supporting explanation for
 the commit that does not belong to the commit log message proper,
 and include it with the patch submission. While one can simply write
 these explanations after `format-patch` has run but before sending,
-keeping them as git notes allows them to be maintained between versions
+keeping them as Git notes allows them to be maintained between versions
 of the patch series (but see the discussion of the `notes.rewrite`
 configuration options in linkgit:git-notes[1] to use this workflow).
 
 --[no]-signature=<signature>::
        Add a signature to each message produced. Per RFC 3676 the signature
        is separated from the body by a line with '-- ' on it. If the
-       signature option is omitted the signature defaults to the git version
+       signature option is omitted the signature defaults to the Git version
        number.
 
 --suffix=.<sfx>::
@@ -380,7 +389,7 @@ Thunderbird
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as flag
 them as being 'format=flowed', both of which will make the
-resulting email unusable by git.
+resulting email unusable by Git.
 
 There are three different approaches: use an add-on to turn off line wraps,
 configure Thunderbird to not mangle patches, or use
@@ -516,8 +525,8 @@ $ git format-patch -M -B origin
 Additionally, it detects and handles renames and complete rewrites
 intelligently to produce a renaming patch.  A renaming patch reduces
 the amount of text output, and generally makes it easier to review.
-Note that non-git "patch" programs won't understand renaming patches, so
-use it only when you know the recipient uses git to apply your patch.
+Note that non-Git "patch" programs won't understand renaming patches, so
+use it only when you know the recipient uses Git to apply your patch.
 
 * Extract three topmost commits from the current branch and format them
 as e-mailable patches: