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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
index 60306429fb7cad45e063cef8f70fc79005df7f70..6cd060108292733725aca28cc8f0b83aa7d0f56e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-merge-index - Runs a merge for files needing merging
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | -- | <file>\*)
+'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | \-- | <file>\*)
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
---::
-       Interpret all following arguments as filenames.
+\--::
+       Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
 
 -a::
        Run merge against all files in the index that need merging.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ or
   fatal: merge program failed
 
 where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to
-merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error
+merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., "cat" returned an error
 for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
 "git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).