git-rev-list: add documentation for --parents, --no-merges

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 0cac563d40f17361569923aebb51e454fd24f92e..bebf30ad3db951c0a0bad01ebee619821781eb39 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
 include::merge-strategies.txt[]
 
 
+If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
+would want to start over, you can recover with
+gitlink:git-reset[1].
+
+
 HOW MERGE WORKS
 ---------------
 
@@ -78,7 +83,7 @@ your local modifications interfere with the merge, again, it
 stops before touching anything.
 
 So in the above two "failed merge" case, you do not have to
-worry about lossage of data --- you simply were not ready to do
+worry about loss of data --- you simply were not ready to do
 a merge, so no merge happened at all.  You may want to finish
 whatever you were in the middle of doing, and retry the same
 pull after you are done and ready.