git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index a9ca2f552017cc592c8ff6b553bf0bbf875646a0..13b106d6264686da90a543d9a84670348eba6939 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
-'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
+'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the
 checkout operation will fail and nothing will be checked out.
 Using -f will ignore these unmerged entries.  The contents from a
 specific side of the merge can be checked out of the index by
-using --ours or --theirs.
+using --ours or --theirs.  With -m, changes made to the working tree
+file can be discarded to recreate the original conflicted merge result.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -83,7 +84,9 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
        based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
 
 -m::
-       If you have local modifications to one or more files that
+--merge::
+       When switching branches,
+       if you have local modifications to one or more files that
        are different between the current branch and the branch to
        which you are switching, the command refuses to switch
        branches in order to preserve your modifications in context.
@@ -95,6 +98,16 @@ When a merge conflict happens, the index entries for conflicting
 paths are left unmerged, and you need to resolve the conflicts
 and mark the resolved paths with `git add` (or `git rm` if the merge
 should result in deletion of the path).
++
+When checking out paths from the index, this option lets you recreate
+the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
+
+--conflict=<style>::
+       The same as --merge option above, but changes the way the
+       conflicting hunks are presented, overriding the
+       merge.conflictstyle configuration variable.  Possible values are
+       "merge" (default) and "diff3" (in addition to what is shown by
+       "merge" style, shows the original contents).
 
 <new_branch>::
        Name for the new branch.