revert: use strbuf to refactor the code that writes the merge message

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 3919b7d44fb8e86ac4010766d47aabb18bacfcd7..43cfba0e4525e15b8f106a1f0f0ab88f5a7b527f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the
 current master branch, if any.
 
 This default configuration is achieved by creating references to
-the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and
+the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and
 by initializing `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch`
 configuration variables.
 
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 
 --verbose::
 -v::
-       Run verbosely.
+       Run verbosely. Does not affect the reporting of progress status
+       to the standard error stream.
 
 --progress::
        Progress status is reported on the standard error stream