Merge branch 'maint-2.5' into maint-2.6

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 3193bd6baec1c6988dac2edc9499969dabc67fea..1c790ac74a6907365c4a69938c3a75ab690cfc2e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@ for other users who clone your repository.
 If you wish the exclude patterns to affect only certain repositories
 (instead of every repository for a given project), you may instead put
 them in a file in your repository named `.git/info/exclude`, or in any
-file specified by the `core.excludesfile` configuration variable.
+file specified by the `core.excludesFile` configuration variable.
 Some Git commands can also take exclude patterns directly on the
 command line.  See linkgit:gitignore[5] for the details.
 
@@ -1431,11 +1431,11 @@ differently.  Normally, a merge results in a merge commit, with two
 parents, one pointing at each of the two lines of development that
 were merged.
 
-However, if the current branch is a descendant of the other--so every
-commit present in the one is already contained in the other--then Git
-just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved
-forward to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new
-commits being created.
+However, if the current branch is an ancestor of the other--so every commit
+present in the current branch is already contained in the other branch--then Git
+just performs a "fast-forward"; the head of the current branch is moved forward
+to point at the head of the merged-in branch, without any new commits being
+created.
 
 [[fixing-mistakes]]
 Fixing mistakes
@@ -3424,7 +3424,7 @@ just missing one particular blob version.
 
 [[the-index]]
 The index
------------
+---------
 
 The index is a binary file (generally kept in `.git/index`) containing a
 sorted list of path names, each with permissions and the SHA-1 of a blob
@@ -4230,9 +4230,9 @@ Most of what `git rev-list` did is contained in `revision.c` and
 controls how and what revisions are walked, and more.
 
 The original job of `git rev-parse` is now taken by the function
-`setup_revisions()`, which parses the revisions and the common command line
+`setup_revisions()`, which parses the revisions and the common command-line
 options for the revision walker. This information is stored in the struct
-`rev_info` for later consumption. You can do your own command line option
+`rev_info` for later consumption. You can do your own command-line option
 parsing after calling `setup_revisions()`. After that, you have to call
 `prepare_revision_walk()` for initialization, and then you can get the
 commits one by one with the function `get_revision()`.