Merge branch 'maint-1.5.5' into maint-1.5.6

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 0c9ad7f2bbdf4872882d127804e7c474729c0818..b05e0cee11352335cbeb1899e8d6cb7070395e37 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-merge' [-n] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+'git-merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
        [-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
 'git-merge' <msg> HEAD <remote>...
 
@@ -46,18 +46,7 @@ linkgit:git-reset[1].
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
-
-merge.summary::
-       Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
-       created merge commit. False by default.
-
-merge.verbosity::
-       Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
-       strategy.  Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error
-       message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
-       conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes.  Level 5 and
-       above outputs debugging information.  The default is level 2.
-       Can be overridden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
+include::merge-config.txt[]
 
 branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
        Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
@@ -68,7 +57,8 @@ HOW MERGE WORKS
 ---------------
 
 A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
-remote branch heads, and the index file must exactly match the
+commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
+exactly match the
 tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit) when
 it happens.  In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
 report no changes.
@@ -169,7 +159,7 @@ linkgit:gitattributes[5]
 
 Author
 ------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
 
 
 Documentation
@@ -178,4 +168,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite