Merge git://repo.or.cz/git-gui

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index bb6b57dc2d00e38fc1d0128fe02fc771a1f83086..5ce905de862253aa2bd2ed619819306165e978f0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
 If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head
 equal to that of the currently checked out branch.
 
+Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
+working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
+new branch.
+
 When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
 branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
 remote branch.  If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it
@@ -81,7 +85,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -a::
        List both remote-tracking branches and local branches.
 
--v::
+-v, --verbose::
        Show sha1 and commit subject line for each head.
 
 --abbrev=<length>::
@@ -91,6 +95,21 @@ OPTIONS
 --no-abbrev::
        Display the full sha1s in output listing rather than abbreviating them.
 
+--track::
+       Set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
+       retrieve data from the remote branch.  Use this if you always
+       pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
+       don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly.  Set the
+       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
+       want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
+       '--track' were given.
+
+--no-track::
+       When a branch is created off a remote branch,
+       set up configuration so that git-pull will not retrieve data
+       from the remote branch, ignoring the branch.autosetupmerge
+       configuration variable.
+
 <branchname>::
        The name of the branch to create or delete.
        The new branch name must pass all checks defined by
@@ -130,12 +149,12 @@ Delete unneeded branch::
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
 $ cd my.git
-$ git branch -d -r todo html man   <1>
-$ git branch -D test               <2>
+$ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <1>
+$ git branch -D test                                    <2>
 ------------
 +
-<1> delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
-<2> delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch does not have all
+<1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
+<2> Delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch does not have all
 commits from test branch.