checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index c884862e2fb91831c3962599507b4034d4bcb77e..13b106d6264686da90a543d9a84670348eba6939 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
-'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
+'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
        based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
 
 -m::
+--merge::
        When switching branches,
        if you have local modifications to one or more files that
        are different between the current branch and the branch to
@@ -101,6 +102,13 @@ should result in deletion of the path).
 When checking out paths from the index, this option lets you recreate
 the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
 
+--conflict=<style>::
+       The same as --merge option above, but changes the way the
+       conflicting hunks are presented, overriding the
+       merge.conflictstyle configuration variable.  Possible values are
+       "merge" (default) and "diff3" (in addition to what is shown by
+       "merge" style, shows the original contents).
+
 <new_branch>::
        Name for the new branch.