Fix per-directory exclude handing for "git add"

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 69db4984473fae7928797bcfb13baf1f0e39d851..3457c4078781d15f9b292d807119f28eee46866c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-revert - Revert an existing commit
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] <commit>
+'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] <commit>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ OPTIONS
        message prior committing the revert. This is the default if
        you run the command from a terminal.
 
+-m parent-number|--mainline parent-number::
+       Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
+       side of the merge should be considered the mainline.  This
+       option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
+       the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
+       relative to the specified parent.
+
 --no-edit::
        With this option, `git-revert` will not start the commit
        message editor.