Teach rev-list an option to read revs from the standard input.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 02c7e99fe6f6e49a5a0e03da7444bc559502585c..11bd9c0adc5517ef1aadc76abdb8dfb0827c27b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-read-tree - Reads tree information into the index
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-read-tree' (<tree-ish> | [[-m [--aggressive]| --reset] [-u | -i]] <tree-ish1> [<tree-ish2> [<tree-ish3>]])
+'git-read-tree' (<tree-ish> | [[-m [--aggressive] | --reset | --prefix=<prefix>] [-u | -i]] <tree-ish1> [<tree-ish2> [<tree-ish3>]])
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ OPTIONS
 * when both sides adds a path identically.  The resolution
   is to add that path.
 
+--prefix=<prefix>/::
+       Keep the current index contents, and read the contents
+       of named tree-ish under directory at `<prefix>`.  The
+       original index file cannot have anything at the path
+       `<prefix>` itself, and have nothing in `<prefix>/`
+       directory.  Note that the `<prefix>/` value must end
+       with a slash.
+
+
 <tree-ish#>::
        The id of the tree object(s) to be read/merged.
 
@@ -257,7 +266,7 @@ file that does not match stage 2.
 This is done to prevent you from losing your work-in-progress
 changes, and mixing your random changes in an unrelated merge
 commit.  To illustrate, suppose you start from what has been
-commited last to your repository:
+committed last to your repository:
 
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 $ JC=`git-rev-parse --verify "HEAD^0"`