Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 95bea66374a6054ee6823b760dbc73d5b84cd5a0..38c72b87329720c630419768c9c68cbe718d7a15 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-add - Add file contents to the changeset to be committed next
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive] [--] <file>...
+'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--] <file>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -f::
        Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
 
-\--interactive::
+-i, \--interactive::
        Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
        the index.
 
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ OPTIONS
        for command-line options).
 
 
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
+$GIT_DIR/info/exclude.  Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in info/exclude.  See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
+
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
@@ -83,7 +92,7 @@ git-add git-*.sh::
 Interactive mode
 ----------------
 When the command enters the interactive mode, it shows the
-output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into ints
+output of the 'status' subcommand, and then goes into its
 interactive command loop.
 
 The command loop shows the list of subcommands available, and