update-index: do not die too early in a read-only repository.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index e2954aa76eef46101f38683eb346bd31bf711a40..e53ff4b4e7464079ac6e19f2bceafcb44044fb39 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ git-merge(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-merge - Grand Unified Merge Driver
+git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-merge' [-n] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
-       [--reflog-action=<action>]
-       -m=<msg> <remote> <remote>...
+       [-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -37,11 +36,6 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
        least one <remote>.  Specifying more than one <remote>
        obviously means you are trying an Octopus.
 
---reflog-action=<action>::
-       This is used internally when `git-pull` calls this command
-       to record that the merge was created by `pull` command
-       in the `ref-log` entry that results from the merge.
-
 include::merge-strategies.txt[]