Merge branch 'jc/legacy-loose-object' into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index fb4c05b83f2c5b27598938416ea092da77e5c81d..e2e6aba17e7bde2bacb7f29ec4c54e5f9587dac6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash]
        [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>]
-       [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] <commit>...
+       [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]
 'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>...
 'git merge' --abort
 
@@ -95,8 +95,13 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'.
 
 <commit>...::
        Commits, usually other branch heads, to merge into our branch.
-       You need at least one <commit>.  Specifying more than one
-       <commit> obviously means you are trying an Octopus.
+       Specifying more than one commit will create a merge with
+       more than two parents (affectionately called an Octopus merge).
++
+If no commit is given from the command line, and if `merge.defaultToUpstream`
+configuration variable is set, merge the remote tracking branches
+that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream.
+See also the configuration section of this manual page.
 
 
 PRE-MERGE CHECKS