Merge branch 'ab/unconditional-free-and-null'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 6a5c00e2c2b5b5201e42e12b74d8ae5128ce9c93..eb36837f86e21423e0a543eceb67313eed27d310 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [--[no-]edit]
        [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<keyid>]]
        [--[no-]allow-unrelated-histories]
-       [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]
+       [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [-F <file>] [<commit>...]
 'git merge' --abort
 'git merge' --continue
 
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ The 'git fmt-merge-msg' command can be
 used to give a good default for automated 'git merge'
 invocations. The automated message can include the branch description.
 
+-F <file>::
+--file=<file>::
+       Read the commit message to be used for the merge commit (in
+       case one is created).
++
+If `--log` is specified, a shortlog of the commits being merged
+will be appended to the specified message.
+
 --[no-]rerere-autoupdate::
        Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
        result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
@@ -122,9 +130,9 @@ merge' may need to update.
 
 To avoid recording unrelated changes in the merge commit,
 'git pull' and 'git merge' will also abort if there are any changes
-registered in the index relative to the `HEAD` commit.  (One
-exception is when the changed index entries are in the state that
-would result from the merge already.)
+registered in the index relative to the `HEAD` commit.  (Special
+narrow exceptions to this rule may exist depending on which merge
+strategy is in use, but generally, the index must match HEAD.)
 
 If all named commits are already ancestors of `HEAD`, 'git merge'
 will exit early with the message "Already up to date."