Merge branch 'pj/remote-set-branches-usage-fix'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
index a585dbe898171ddb8a205cc5a898d695540f80a6..3a0f55ec8e273545af3a92a9b886511ac79ba73c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-fmt-merge-msg - Produce a merge commit message
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] -F <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ automatically invoking 'git merge'.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
---log::
+--log[=<n>]::
        In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
        one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being
-       merged.
+       merged.  At most <n> commits from each merge parent will be
+       used (20 if <n> is omitted).  This overrides the `merge.log`
+       configuration variable.
 
 --no-log::
        Do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being
@@ -38,6 +40,11 @@ OPTIONS
        Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be
        removed in the future.
 
+-m <message>::
+--message <message>::
+       Use <message> instead of the branch names for the first line
+       of the log message.  For use with `--log`.
+
 -F <file>::
 --file <file>::
        Take the list of merged objects from <file> instead of
@@ -46,9 +53,16 @@ OPTIONS
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 
+merge.branchdesc::
+       In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
+       the branch description text associated with them.  Defaults
+       to false.
+
 merge.log::
-       Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
-       merge commit messages. False by default.
+       In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
+       most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
+       actual commits that are being merged.  Defaults to false, and
+       true is a synonym for 20.
 
 merge.summary::
        Synonym to `merge.log`; this is deprecated and will be removed in
@@ -58,15 +72,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-merge[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite