Merge branch 'jc/remove-export-from-config-mak-in'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 7bdb039d5ee9c6ed6c19c70173c733860de2d5b7..05f82973687bb3fd7fbb066f725d72d386cd446f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
 3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which
    case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead
    record the current content of the listed files (which must already
-   be known to git);
+   be known to Git);
 
 4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically
    "add" changes from all known files (i.e. all files that are already
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --all::
        Tell the command to automatically stage files that have
        been modified and deleted, but new files you have not
-       told git about are not affected.
+       told Git about are not affected.
 
 -p::
 --patch::
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ OPTIONS
 -m <msg>::
 --message=<msg>::
        Use the given <msg> as the commit message.
+       If multiple `-m` options are given, their values are
+       concatenated as separate paragraphs.
 
 -t <file>::
 --template=<file>::
@@ -172,14 +174,25 @@ OPTIONS
        linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
 
 --cleanup=<mode>::
-       This option sets how the commit message is cleaned up.
-       The  '<mode>' can be one of 'verbatim', 'whitespace', 'strip',
-       and 'default'. The 'default' mode will strip leading and
-       trailing empty lines and #commentary from the commit message
-       only if the message is to be edited. Otherwise only whitespace
-       removed. The 'verbatim' mode does not change message at all,
-       'whitespace' removes just leading/trailing whitespace lines
-       and 'strip' removes both whitespace and commentary.
+       This option determines how the supplied commit message should be
+       cleaned up before committing.  The '<mode>' can be `strip`,
+       `whitespace`, `verbatim`, or `default`.
++
+--
+strip::
+       Strip leading and trailing empty lines, trailing whitespace, and
+       #commentary and collapse consecutive empty lines.
+whitespace::
+       Same as `strip` except #commentary is not removed.
+verbatim::
+       Do not change the message at all.
+default::
+       Same as `strip` if the message is to be edited.
+       Otherwise `whitespace`.
+--
++
+The default can be changed by the 'commit.cleanup' configuration
+variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 -e::
 --edit::
@@ -402,7 +415,7 @@ Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
 with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
 change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.
 The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated
-as the commit title, and that title is used throughout git.
+as the commit title, and that title is used throughout Git.
 For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a commit into email, and it uses
 the title on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body.