git-rev-list: add --bisect-vars option.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index d043e86a776897d4ec5b6515e3cf70d89fa8a97c..cd5e014d4899954b204173f6e1d84e011a307ac8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-update-index(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-update-index - Modifies the index or directory cache
+git-update-index - Register file contents in the working tree to the index
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>]\*
             [--chmod=(+|-)x]
             [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged]
-            [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again]
+            [--really-refresh] [--unresolve] [--again | -g]
             [--info-only] [--index-info]
             [-z] [--stdin]
             [--verbose]
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --remove::
        If a specified file is in the index but is missing then it's
        removed.
-       Default behaviour is to ignore removed file.
+       Default behavior is to ignore removed file.
 
 --refresh::
        Looks at the current index and checks to see if merges or
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ OPTIONS
        filesystem that has very slow lstat(2) system call
        (e.g. cifs).
 
---again::
+--again, -g::
        Runs `git-update-index` itself on the paths whose index
        entries are different from those from the `HEAD` commit.
 
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ $ git ls-files -s
 ------------
 
 
-Using "assume unchanged" bit
-----------------------------
+Using ``assume unchanged'' bit
+------------------------------
 
 Many operations in git depend on your filesystem to have an
 efficient `lstat(2)` implementation, so that `st_mtime`
@@ -289,19 +289,24 @@ Configuration
 
 The command honors `core.filemode` configuration variable.  If
 your repository is on an filesystem whose executable bits are
-unreliable, this should be set to 'false' (see gitlink:git-repo-config[1]).
+unreliable, this should be set to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]).
 This causes the command to ignore differences in file modes recorded
 in the index and the file mode on the filesystem if they differ only on
 executable bit.   On such an unfortunate filesystem, you may
 need to use `git-update-index --chmod=`.
 
+Quite similarly, if `core.symlinks` configuration variable is set
+to 'false' (see gitlink:git-config[1]), symbolic links are checked out
+as plain files, and this command does not modify a recorded file mode
+from symbolic link to regular file.
+
 The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable.  See
 'Using "assume unchanged" bit' section above.
 
 
 See Also
 --------
-gitlink:git-repo-config[1]
+gitlink:git-config[1]
 
 
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